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Peter Cowan : An Angry Penguin in the West
2020
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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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Peter Cowan : The Criterion and the Principle
2001
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— Appears in: Storykeepers 2001; (p. 243-254) -
Voices in a Landscape: The Fiction of Peter Cowan
1992
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Peter Cowan : New Critical Essays 1992; (p. 99-108) -
Silences and Spaces : Peter Cowan's Place in the Landscape of Australian Literature
1987
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Overland , September no. 108 1987; (p. 59-64) Peter Cowan : New Critical Essays 1992; (p. 9-19)
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Silences and Spaces : Peter Cowan's Place in the Landscape of Australian Literature
1987
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Overland , September no. 108 1987; (p. 59-64) Peter Cowan : New Critical Essays 1992; (p. 9-19) -
Voices in a Landscape: The Fiction of Peter Cowan
1992
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Peter Cowan : New Critical Essays 1992; (p. 99-108) -
Peter Cowan : The Criterion and the Principle
2001
single work
essay
— Appears in: Storykeepers 2001; (p. 243-254) -
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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