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Peter Cowan : An Angry Penguin in the West
2020
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 34 no. 1 2020; (p. 22-38)'The central argument of this essay is that Peter Cowan's modernist experiments in fiction have not received due acknowledgment. A complex and conflicted personality, Cowan emerged in the 1940s as a writer under the sponsorship of the Angry Penguins in Melbourne but has become identified with Western Australia, where he was born and lived almost all his life. This essay, which discusses his love-hate relationship with the place, attempts to counter the limiting view that he is a regional writer. Drawing attention to the extraordinary contrast been his modernist fiction and his old-fashioned historical chronicles of his colonial forbears, it reveals him as a man psychically wounded by his family's past, whose overriding concern in his fiction was to match in words the emotional immediacy that the Angry Penguins achieved in paint.' (Publication abstract)
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New/Old Books about the Colonial West...
1991
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 5 no. 2 1991; (p. 159-160)
— Review of A Faithful Picture : The Letters of Eliza and Thomas Brown at York in the Swan River Colony 1841-1852 1977 anthology correspondence prose -
Women in the Wilderness : Gender, Landscape and Eliza Brown's Letters and Journal
1991
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , December vol. 36 no. 4 1991; (p. 33-38) -
Deconstructing Utopia : The Blind Metaphors of Colonial Painters and Diarists
1987
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: The Writer's Sense of the Past : Essays on Southeast Asian and Australasian Literature 1987; (p. 133-151)
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New/Old Books about the Colonial West...
1991
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 5 no. 2 1991; (p. 159-160)
— Review of A Faithful Picture : The Letters of Eliza and Thomas Brown at York in the Swan River Colony 1841-1852 1977 anthology correspondence prose -
Deconstructing Utopia : The Blind Metaphors of Colonial Painters and Diarists
1987
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: The Writer's Sense of the Past : Essays on Southeast Asian and Australasian Literature 1987; (p. 133-151) -
Women in the Wilderness : Gender, Landscape and Eliza Brown's Letters and Journal
1991
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , December vol. 36 no. 4 1991; (p. 33-38) -
Peter Cowan : An Angry Penguin in the West
2020
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 34 no. 1 2020; (p. 22-38)'The central argument of this essay is that Peter Cowan's modernist experiments in fiction have not received due acknowledgment. A complex and conflicted personality, Cowan emerged in the 1940s as a writer under the sponsorship of the Angry Penguins in Melbourne but has become identified with Western Australia, where he was born and lived almost all his life. This essay, which discusses his love-hate relationship with the place, attempts to counter the limiting view that he is a regional writer. Drawing attention to the extraordinary contrast been his modernist fiction and his old-fashioned historical chronicles of his colonial forbears, it reveals him as a man psychically wounded by his family's past, whose overriding concern in his fiction was to match in words the emotional immediacy that the Angry Penguins achieved in paint.' (Publication abstract)