Randolph Stow
Articles
- Grievous Music: Randolph Stow’s Middle Ages
Randolph Stow's poem 'Outrider', which forms the epigraph to Stow's 1981 novel The Girl Green as Elderflower, tells of loss, dislocation, and 'ancestral ghosts'…
1 November 2011 - War in Post-1960s Fiction: Johnston, Stow, McDonald, Malouf and Les Murray
Discusses a number of war novels which, rather than focussing on military conflicts, centre on the ways in which war has shaped Australian experience. Argues…
1 October 1985 - Honour the Single Soul: Homage to Randolph Stow (1936-2010)
In this essay, both an obituary and a critical overview of Stow’s work, Leer aims to ‘honour the single soul who was Randolph Stow—and explore…
1 May 2011 - ‘I have so many truths to tell’: Randolph Stow’s Visitants and The Girl Green as Elderflower
Discusses Stow's medievalism in The Girl Green as Elderflower and Visitants. 'In its indirect and playful form [Stow's medievalism] offers reparation for colonial visiting…
1 May 2011 - *West Coast Correspondences: Randolph Stow Encounters Thom Gunn’s *The Sense of Movement
‘Taking a letter from English poet Thom Gunn, resident in California, to Stow in Geraldton, WA, as a starting point, the author explores ‘correspondences’ between…
1 May 2011 - Randolph Stow’s Outrider and the French Voyager Poem
Whereas the negative early criticism of Tourmaline (1963) found cogent, if belated rebuttal in the articles of A.D. Hope and Helen Tiffin that appeared ten…
1 October 1997 - Mal du Pays: Symbolic Geography in the Work of Randolph Stow
The refrain of Randolph Stow's 'Outrider' echoes throughout his work as a central, counterpointed theme. Like a descant moving further and further away from its…
1 May 1991 - Gaeldom and the Western District
Scotland's Gaelic-speakers are not very numerous--according to the latest publication of the Gaelic Television Committee they number about 82,000, all of them bi-lingual--but they are…
1 October 1993 - Review of Imagined Lives: A Study of David Malouf, Sheer Edge: Aspects of Identity in David Malouf's Writing, David Malouf, and Randolph Stow
After the opening performance of Mer de Glace at the Sydney Opera House, the appearance of David Malouf and Richard Meale on stage was greeted…
1 May 1992 - Review of Strange Country: A Study of Randolph Stow, by Anthony J. Hassall
The reviewer of the first critical monograph on Randolph Stow, by the American Ray Willbanks, was faced with the 'inescapable question: Is Stow's work, as…
1 October 1986 - Review of books by Harry Marks, Douglas Stewart, William Walsh and Ray Willbanks
Julian Croft reviews the following volumes:
I Can Jump Oceans: The World of Alan Marshall, by Harry Marks (Nelson Australia, Melbourne, 1977).
A Man…
1 May 1979 - The Alienation of Alistair Cawdor in Randolph Stow’s Visitants
Argues that the book is 'an account of the psychodrama of Cawdor's last weeks, and that the information we are given to help us penetrate…
1 October 1980 - The Use of Names and Colours in Randolph Stow’s Tourmaline
In Stow's work, the symbolic use of names and colours is deeply influenced not only by an 'imported' orthodox Christian inheritance but also by Stow's…
1 October 1990 - Interview with Randolph Stow
Randolph Stow discusses his career, approach to writing, inspiration and travel, among other topics.
1 May 1982 - The Modernist Sacred: Randolph Stow and Patrick White
‘In this essay, the radical potentialities of modernism’s dialogue with notions of the sacred will be analysed, with a particular focus on the active construction…
1 October 2007 - Review of Mick: A Life of Randolph Stow, by Suzanne Falkiner
Mick: A Life of Randolph Stow, by Suzanne Falkiner. UWA Publishing, 2016.
25 February 2018
Contributors
- Lars Andersson
- Daniel Brown
- John Barnes
- Julian Croft
- Melanie Duckworth
- Laurie Hergenhan
- Anthony J. Hassall
- Anthony J. Hassall
- Ivor Indyk
- Martin Leer
- Andrew Lynch
- Martin Leer
- Antonella Riem Natale
- Randolph Stow
- Werner Senn
- Randolph Stow
- Carl Whitehouse