Peter Pierce
Biographic Data
| ID | 5406864 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Pierce |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Pierce |
| SIGNATURE | PIERCE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | James Cook University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Literature of the Pacific, Mainly Australian
This lecture is in some ways the ‘lost’ chapter of The Cambridge History of Australian Literature (2009), one eventually not written because the projected author could find not enough literary material even in that vast Pacific Ocean, or perhaps found – as mariners have – only far separated specks in that ocean. Yet Australian literature about the nation’s Pacific littoral and the islands within the ocean and the ocean itself is varied, considera…
The Making of Thomas Keneally
The making of Thomas Keneally can be conventionally addressed in regard to his Irish Catholic working-class ancestry, his discovery of a vocation that was not the priesthood, and the forging of a career that has been at once an artistic and a commercial success. The approach here will be more oblique, examining the role of Manning Clark, the early volumes of whose A History of Australia were an important influence on such novels by Keneally as Br…
The Cambridge History of Australian Literature
The Cambridge History of Australian Literature is the most comprehensive volume ever written on Australia's national literature. This authoritative guide spans Australian literary history from colonial origins, encompassing indigenous and migrant literatures, as well as representations of Asia and the Pacific and the role of literary culture in modern Australian society. Bringing together a distinguished line-up of contributors, this volume explo…
Tropic Days
The following is a transcript of the 2004 Foundation for Australian Literary Studies Lecture presented at Mackay by Profesor Peter Pierce, Chair of Australian Literature at James Cook University
The Solitariness of Alex Miller
The article presents an overview of Alex Millerâ s literary career and development as a writer and examines his six novels published to date
Australia's Vietnam War
Les Murray’s ‘Narrowspeak’
Examines Murrayâ s prose which he has spoken of as â Narrowspeakâ , in comparison to the â Wholespeakâ of poetry
Roy Bridge’s Fictions of Van Diemen’s Land
Had he been on their case, one can imagine F.R. Leavis intoning 'We will not reckon Bryce Courtenay a writer of historical fiction to appeal to adult minds if we think of Roy Bridges'. No Australian author of such fiction had so long a career as Bridges: it spanned just over four decades. His novels, but especially those to do with Van Diemen's Land in the convict era (and more narrowly during the Lieutenant-Governorship of George Arthur from 182…
The Fiction of Gabrielle Lord
Why do people do this sort of thing?' It is a child's question, from a boy called Derek, who is one of a group kidnapped with their teacher. She tries to answer him: unhappy childhoods, harsh parents, but concludesâ in despairâ 'No one really knows' (90). The exchange comes from the first of Gabrielle Lord's eight novels, Fortress (1980). It has resonated through the increasingly complex works that she has written since then. One of Lord's key su…
The Critics Made Me’
While Thomas Keneally himself generously acknowledges that 'the critics made me' (Pierce, Interview), few Australian authors - in the course of long, productive and internationally acclaimed careers - have suffered such critical opprobrium in their own country. His perception of causes soon to be fashionable (such as the treatment of Australian Aborigines), his insistence on how the Australian present can be traced to its European social and inte…
Narcotic Entanglements
Once upon a time, Australian literary criticism was written piecemeal, mainly from outside the academy. Now most of it emerges from within the walls, often dour, routine, derivative stuff, sometimes animated by supple assimilation of theory to local conditions and complaints. In this collection of critical works on Australian authors, Jack Beasley's book recalls a lost, amateur era in Australian letters. We will not see many of its like again
Vietnam Days
chart some of the forms which Australian representations of the war have taken. The book is divided into two sections, each coniaining three separate but related chapters. Part 1 sifts through the myths surrounding Australian involvement in the war. Ian McNeiil considers the australian Army's involvement in Viemam and analyses strategic planning and operational performance against the background of what is now known about the war. He outlines the…
Honi Heke
The focus of most nineteenth-century Australian literary depictions of the Maori, which were by turns celebratory, admonitory, satirical, was the rebellion of Honi Heke, or the Northern War of 1845-46. Authors imagined this antagonist of British imperialism in New Zealand in ways that emphasised forlorn heroics rather than recalcitrant barbarism; discovered in him a nobility felt signally to be lacking in the Aborigines of Australia; Heke was use…
Preying on the Past
Discusses the 'revisionist' historical fiction of, among others, Rodney Hall, David Malouf and Robert Drewe, in the context of Australian historical fiction from its origins in the nineteenth century
The Sites of War in the Fiction of Thomas Keneally
That war is both a monstrous, but an ineradicably human activity, a horror for individuals but an essential element in the making and memory of nations, is affirmed in the fiction of Thomas Keneally. His second novel, The Fear (1965) treated the strains of homefront life in Australia during the Second World War. A Family Madness (1985), his most recent book, dramatised the haunting, destructive legacies of the same war a generation later among Be…
Perceptions of the Enemy in Australian War Literature
The essay examines the literary consequences of an Australian need for an enemy in the nation-building and myth-making process, and traces how perceptions of the enemy have changed in Australian poetry and prose of war since 1885. It also compares Australian with some British and American war literature from the same period
A Checklist of Australian Literature of the Vietnam War
How Australia’s Literary History Might be Written
Discusses a number of histories of Australian literature and their authorsâ approaches, and suggests new modes of writing Australian literary history
Revaluing Australian Legends
In this decade Barry Oakley, Jack Hibberd, Michael Boddy and Bob Ellis among Australian playwrights have sought to revalue Australian legends from a radical perspective. In some cases their plays come with theories attached: their aims include the reaching of new audiences, previously deprived of theatre; the enabling of a richer understanding of national history; even the remedying of social ills. These ambitions have been encouraged by critics …
Tropic Days
The following is a transcript of the 2004 Foundation for Australian Literary Studies Lecture presented at Mackay by Profesor Peter Pierce, Chair of Australian Literature at James Cook University
Perceptions of the Enemy in Australian War Literature
The essay examines the literary consequences of an Australian need for an enemy in the nation-building and myth-making process, and traces how perceptions of the enemy have changed in Australian poetry and prose of war since 1885. It also compares Australian with some British and American war literature from the same period
Revaluing Australian Legends
In this decade Barry Oakley, Jack Hibberd, Michael Boddy and Bob Ellis among Australian playwrights have sought to revalue Australian legends from a radical perspective. In some cases their plays come with theories attached: their aims include the reaching of new audiences, previously deprived of theatre; the enabling of a richer understanding of national history; even the remedying of social ills. These ambitions have been encouraged by critics …
Revaluing Australian Legends
In this decade Barry Oakley, Jack Hibberd, Michael Boddy and Bob Ellis among Australian playwrights have sought to revalue Australian legends from a radical perspective. In some cases their plays come with theories attached: their aims include the reaching of new audiences, previously deprived of theatre; the enabling of a richer understanding of national history; even the remedying of social ills. These ambitions have been encouraged by critics …
How Australia’s Literary History Might be Written
Discusses a number of histories of Australian literature and their authorsâ approaches, and suggests new modes of writing Australian literary history
Perceptions of the Enemy in Australian War Literature
The essay examines the literary consequences of an Australian need for an enemy in the nation-building and myth-making process, and traces how perceptions of the enemy have changed in Australian poetry and prose of war since 1885. It also compares Australian with some British and American war literature from the same period
A Checklist of Australian Literature of the Vietnam War
The Sites of War in the Fiction of Thomas Keneally
That war is both a monstrous, but an ineradicably human activity, a horror for individuals but an essential element in the making and memory of nations, is affirmed in the fiction of Thomas Keneally. His second novel, The Fear (1965) treated the strains of homefront life in Australia during the Second World War. A Family Madness (1985), his most recent book, dramatised the haunting, destructive legacies of the same war a generation later among Be…
Preying on the Past
Discusses the 'revisionist' historical fiction of, among others, Rodney Hall, David Malouf and Robert Drewe, in the context of Australian historical fiction from its origins in the nineteenth century
Vietnam Days
chart some of the forms which Australian representations of the war have taken. The book is divided into two sections, each coniaining three separate but related chapters. Part 1 sifts through the myths surrounding Australian involvement in the war. Ian McNeiil considers the australian Army's involvement in Viemam and analyses strategic planning and operational performance against the background of what is now known about the war. He outlines the…
Honi Heke
The focus of most nineteenth-century Australian literary depictions of the Maori, which were by turns celebratory, admonitory, satirical, was the rebellion of Honi Heke, or the Northern War of 1845-46. Authors imagined this antagonist of British imperialism in New Zealand in ways that emphasised forlorn heroics rather than recalcitrant barbarism; discovered in him a nobility felt signally to be lacking in the Aborigines of Australia; Heke was use…
Narcotic Entanglements
Once upon a time, Australian literary criticism was written piecemeal, mainly from outside the academy. Now most of it emerges from within the walls, often dour, routine, derivative stuff, sometimes animated by supple assimilation of theory to local conditions and complaints. In this collection of critical works on Australian authors, Jack Beasley's book recalls a lost, amateur era in Australian letters. We will not see many of its like again
The Critics Made Me’
While Thomas Keneally himself generously acknowledges that 'the critics made me' (Pierce, Interview), few Australian authors - in the course of long, productive and internationally acclaimed careers - have suffered such critical opprobrium in their own country. His perception of causes soon to be fashionable (such as the treatment of Australian Aborigines), his insistence on how the Australian present can be traced to its European social and inte…
The Fiction of Gabrielle Lord
Why do people do this sort of thing?' It is a child's question, from a boy called Derek, who is one of a group kidnapped with their teacher. She tries to answer him: unhappy childhoods, harsh parents, but concludesâ in despairâ 'No one really knows' (90). The exchange comes from the first of Gabrielle Lord's eight novels, Fortress (1980). It has resonated through the increasingly complex works that she has written since then. One of Lord's key su…
Roy Bridge’s Fictions of Van Diemen’s Land
Had he been on their case, one can imagine F.R. Leavis intoning 'We will not reckon Bryce Courtenay a writer of historical fiction to appeal to adult minds if we think of Roy Bridges'. No Australian author of such fiction had so long a career as Bridges: it spanned just over four decades. His novels, but especially those to do with Van Diemen's Land in the convict era (and more narrowly during the Lieutenant-Governorship of George Arthur from 182…
Les Murray’s ‘Narrowspeak’
Examines Murrayâ s prose which he has spoken of as â Narrowspeakâ , in comparison to the â Wholespeakâ of poetry
Australia's Vietnam War
Tropic Days
The following is a transcript of the 2004 Foundation for Australian Literary Studies Lecture presented at Mackay by Profesor Peter Pierce, Chair of Australian Literature at James Cook University
The Solitariness of Alex Miller
The article presents an overview of Alex Millerâ s literary career and development as a writer and examines his six novels published to date
The Cambridge History of Australian Literature
The Cambridge History of Australian Literature is the most comprehensive volume ever written on Australia's national literature. This authoritative guide spans Australian literary history from colonial origins, encompassing indigenous and migrant literatures, as well as representations of Asia and the Pacific and the role of literary culture in modern Australian society. Bringing together a distinguished line-up of contributors, this volume explo…
The Making of Thomas Keneally
The making of Thomas Keneally can be conventionally addressed in regard to his Irish Catholic working-class ancestry, his discovery of a vocation that was not the priesthood, and the forging of a career that has been at once an artistic and a commercial success. The approach here will be more oblique, examining the role of Manning Clark, the early volumes of whose A History of Australia were an important influence on such novels by Keneally as Br…
Literature of the Pacific, Mainly Australian
This lecture is in some ways the ‘lost’ chapter of The Cambridge History of Australian Literature (2009), one eventually not written because the projected author could find not enough literary material even in that vast Pacific Ocean, or perhaps found – as mariners have – only far separated specks in that ocean. Yet Australian literature about the nation’s Pacific littoral and the islands within the ocean and the ocean itself is varied, considera…
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