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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Randolph Stow : Critical Essays
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'Randolph Stow (1935–2010) was a writer who resisted critical containment. His complete oeuvre of eight novels, a children’s novella, a libretto, translation work and several collections of poetry presents an accomplished and impressive literary legacy.

Kate Rendell said:

'“Commencing this project with the simple ambition to present a critical collection responding to the full breadth of Randolph Stow’s work, I extended an invitation to literary scholars and critics whose work I knew addressed his writing. The responses were encouraging and generous, confirming the wide reach of interest in Stow’s life and literature. It reminded me that while not as comprehensively studied as some of his contemporaries, Stow continues to enjoy the support of broad public and academic readership.”

'The collection republishes a number of significant essays but also presents new readings acknowledging the remarkable skill as well as the limitations of Stow’s literary imagining. All are a testimony to the resonance of Stow’s writing while acknowledging the critical complexities of his work.' (Publication summary)

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Contents

* Contents derived from the Crawley, Inner Perth, Perth, Western Australia,:UWA Publishing , 2021 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Truth Telling and the Art of Listening : To the Islands, Klaus Neumann , single work essay (p. 77-94)
Forest River Mission as Raw Material in to the Islands, Kate Leah Rendell , single work criticism
Introduction : Randolph Stow and His Literary Critics, Kate Leah Rendell , single work criticism
Shade to Camp in : The Land's Meaning : New and Selected Poems, Michael Farrell , single work criticism
Colonial Adventure and Citation in Midnite, Rachael Weaver , single work criticism
The Story of a (Post) Colonial Boy, Roger Averill , single work biography
Tourmaline as Anti-Anabase, Philip Mead , single work criticism
'O People of Little Weight in the Memory of These Places!' : Desert Narration in Tourmaline, Martin Leer , single work criticism
Randolph Stow : A Double Nostalgia, Graeme Kinross-Smith , single work criticism biography
Randolph Stow's Malta, Suzanne Falkiner , single work criticism
Machine in the Water : Oceanic Pastoral in The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea, Samuel Carmody , single work criticism
An 'Uncomfortable Form of Therapy' : Catharsis and the Colonial Subject in Stow's Expatriate Writing, Catherine Noske , single work criticism
Visitants: Randolph Stow’s End Time Novel, Nicholas Jose , single work criticism
Randolph Stow's Medielalism : Responses to Chaucer's 'Pardoner's Tale', Margaret Rogerson , single work criticism

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Kate Leah Rendell, Ed. Randolph Stow: Critical Essays. Richard Carr , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 22 no. 1 2022;

— Review of Randolph Stow : Critical Essays 2021 anthology criticism
'Kate Leah Rendell has capitalised on the revitalised enthusiasm for Randolph Stow with Randolph Stow: Critical Essays, an edited collection of thirteen pieces exploring the writer of fiction and the man. It was Suzanne Falkiner’s hefty tome, Mick: A Life of Randolph Stow (2015), that sparked renewed interest in a once-major writer who had descended into oblivion by the time of his death in 2010. Stow had ranked among Australia’s major writers for most of the late twentieth century. At age 22, he won the Miles Franklin Prize for his third novel, To the Islands (1958). His subsequent novels, Tourmaline (1962) and The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea (1965) achieved classic status almost immediately. Stow’s history followed a pattern common enough among creative Australians in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He left the country in his twenties, in the early 1960s, leading a life as wanderer and then as a permanent exile. After an extended visit to Australia in 1974, Stow left for England—Suffolk—never to return. His writing silences moved from prolonged to permanent; after the 1984 publication of The Suburbs of Hell, Stow did not publish another work.' (Introduction)
Beyond Platitudes : Contemporary Resonances in Randolph Stow’s Oeuvre Brenda Walker , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 431 2021; (p. 46-47)

— Review of Randolph Stow : Critical Essays 2021 anthology criticism

'‘Land isn’t always meant to be grasped any more than art is, or dust,’ writes Michael Farrell in the arresting opening sentence of the first essay of Kate Leah Rendell’s Randolph Stow: Critical essays. Stow’s writing shows just how provisional meaning and territoriality can be, and the statement is a fitting beginning to a new book about his work.' (Introduction)

Beyond Platitudes : Contemporary Resonances in Randolph Stow’s Oeuvre Brenda Walker , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 431 2021; (p. 46-47)

— Review of Randolph Stow : Critical Essays 2021 anthology criticism

'‘Land isn’t always meant to be grasped any more than art is, or dust,’ writes Michael Farrell in the arresting opening sentence of the first essay of Kate Leah Rendell’s Randolph Stow: Critical essays. Stow’s writing shows just how provisional meaning and territoriality can be, and the statement is a fitting beginning to a new book about his work.' (Introduction)

Kate Leah Rendell, Ed. Randolph Stow: Critical Essays. Richard Carr , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 22 no. 1 2022;

— Review of Randolph Stow : Critical Essays 2021 anthology criticism
'Kate Leah Rendell has capitalised on the revitalised enthusiasm for Randolph Stow with Randolph Stow: Critical Essays, an edited collection of thirteen pieces exploring the writer of fiction and the man. It was Suzanne Falkiner’s hefty tome, Mick: A Life of Randolph Stow (2015), that sparked renewed interest in a once-major writer who had descended into oblivion by the time of his death in 2010. Stow had ranked among Australia’s major writers for most of the late twentieth century. At age 22, he won the Miles Franklin Prize for his third novel, To the Islands (1958). His subsequent novels, Tourmaline (1962) and The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea (1965) achieved classic status almost immediately. Stow’s history followed a pattern common enough among creative Australians in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He left the country in his twenties, in the early 1960s, leading a life as wanderer and then as a permanent exile. After an extended visit to Australia in 1974, Stow left for England—Suffolk—never to return. His writing silences moved from prolonged to permanent; after the 1984 publication of The Suburbs of Hell, Stow did not publish another work.' (Introduction)
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