Peter Pierce

Peter Pierce

is Adjunct Professor in the School of Journalism, Australian and Indigenous Studies at Monash University.


About Peter Pierce

Peter Pierce is Adjunct Professor in the School of Journalism, Australian and Indigenous Studies at Monash University. He is the editor of The Cambridge History of Australian Literature (2009).


Articles about Peter Pierce

Articles by Peter Pierce

The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose Book Cover

The Mischievous Artistry of Heather Rose: The Museum of Modern Love

'Rose might be reckoned to have fashioned a body of work intensely linked in themes, preoccupations and techniques. The mention of a few will introduce a longer look at Rose’s fictional world: mutilation, metamorphosis, accidental deaths, artists working ardently in various mediums, the remote shores and landscapes of Tasmania, the impingement of a benign spirit realm on the daily lives of some of her characters, people ostracised or outcast from whatever need, fault or compulsion.' 

17.02.17

Peter Pierce

Published on 23.01.13 in
Clade by James Bradley

The catastrophe business: Clade
by James Bradley

The first scene in Clade is in Antarctica. It is the summer solstice, ‘the first intimation of the year’s long retreat into the dark’. Adam is a scientist and, in particular, a climate-change researcher. The urgency of this activity is underscored, not for the last time, in a novel that will let us consume our fill of human-assisted natural catastrophes ...

20.03.15

Peter Pierce

Published on 23.01.13 in
The Young Desire It by Kenneth Mackenzie

No success like failure: The Young Desire It by Kenneth Mackenzie

The Young Desire It is one of the most brilliant, confident and unusual instances of a Bildungsroman in Australian literature. Nor was it a flash of genius soon extinguished. Scores of poems and three more novels followed, besides extensive unpublished fiction. But how has Mackenzie fared in Australian literary history?

27.08.13

Peter Pierce

Published on 23.01.13 in
Montebello by Robert Drewe

The Assignments of Robert Drewe: Montebello

Here are stories that Drewe has not had time to tell before, others that he has told and which now reappear in fresh versions. Involved also is a persistent retrospect on his career, a process less nostalgic than it is interested in the fashioning of his reputation.

05.02.13

Peter Pierce

Published on 23.01.13 in

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