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Peter Otto Peter Otto i(A31760 works by)
Born: Established: 1953 ;
Gender: Male
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1 'Are We the Future of the Past?' : Gothic Pasts, Gothic Futures, and Imaginary Lives Peter Otto , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October - November vol. 26 no. 3-4 2011; (p. 86-101) 'Peter Otto's essay ... argues that the novel's temporal frame, and its evocation of a species of Gothicism, challenges conventional periodisation' (p.4). The author argues that 'the space of engagement conjured by our ... slow reading of An Imaginary Life , offers an important allegory of the situation of white Australians. Read in these terms, it suggests just how important it might be for white Australians, temporarily, to resist the urge to belong, and that they might not want to become the 'final man', the 'white aborigine', that their own past has dreamed' (p.100).
1 Telling Tales About Crossing Borders : David Malouf, Germaine Greer, and the Reception of Remembering Babylon Peter Otto , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Frontier Skirmishes : Literary and Cultural Debates in Australia after 1992 2010; (p. 231-246)
1 Rereading David Malouf's Fly Away Peter : The Great War, Aboriginal Dispossession, and the Politics of Remembering Peter Otto , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , vol. 24 no. 1 2009; (p. 35-51) The author's account of Fly Away Peter is intended 'to raise the question of the relation between Malouf's closely intertwined narratives of the Great War and the formation of Australian identity and, on the other hand, Aboriginal narratives of dispossession and self-affirmation.' This leads to a consideration of the novel's treatment of the Anzac myth and its role as a settler narrative; and to a discussion of the 'Ngurrara Canvas', painted by 'Great Sandy Desert traditional owners prior to the National Native Title tribunal hearings in 1997'. 'Rather than pitting one narrative of loss and recovery against another, I hope to suggest some of the heterogenous, perhaps incommensurate elements in relation to which any twenty-first-century narrative of Australian identity must locate itself' (38-39).
1 Romantic Medievalism and Gothic Horror : Wordsworth, Tennyson, Kendall, and the Dilemmas of Antipodean Gothic Peter Otto , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Medievalism and the Gothic in Australian Culture 2006; (p. 19-40) Peter Otto focuses 'on the ways in which Kendall uses the Gothic - Gothic medievalism and Gothic primitivism, in particular - to generate a sense of belonging in an alien locale and, often at the same time, a disabling awareness of alienation, violence and loss' (19-20).
1 Forgetting Colonialism Peter Otto , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 52 no. 3 1993; (p. 545-558)
1 Kendall's Sublime Melancholy Peter Otto , 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: Henry Kendall : The Muse of Australia 1992; (p. 418-443)
1 Imagining Romanticism : Essays on English and Australian Romanticisms : Introduction Deirdre Coleman , Peter Otto , 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: Imagining Romanticism : Essays on English and Australian Romanticisms 1992; (p. ix-xxi)
1 3 y separately published work icon Imagining Romanticism : Essays on English and Australian Romanticisms Deirdre Coleman (editor), Peter Otto (editor), West Cornwall : Locust Hill Press , 1992 Z413088 1992 selected work criticism
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