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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Tim Winton, literature and the field of literary criticism / Lyn McCredden and Nathanael O'Reilly -- Water / Bill Ashcroft -- 'Bursting with voice and doubleness': vernacular presence and visions of inclusiveness in Tim Winton's Cloudstreet / Fiona Morrison -- Winton's spectralities or What haunts Cloudstreet? / Michael R. Griffiths -- 'Over the cliff and into the water': love, death and confession in Tim Winton's fiction / Hannah Schürholz -- Editing and publishing of Tim Winton in the United States / Per Henningsgaard -- From father to son: fatherhood and father-son relationship in Scission / Nathanael O'Reilly -- Writing childhood in Tim Winton's fiction / Tanya Dalziell -- Cycle of love and loss: melancholic masculinity in The turning / Bridget Grogan -- Transcultural Winton: mnemonic landscapes of Australia / Sissy Helff -- From the sublime to the uncanny in Tim Winton's Breath / Brigid Rooney -- A not completely pointless beauty: breath, exceptionality and neoliberalism / Nicholas Birns -- Extreme games, hegemony and narration: an interpretation of Tim Winton's Breath / Hou Fei -- 'Intolerable significance': Tim Winton's Eyrie / Lyn McCredden. |
| Summary |
Why is it that Tim Winton - one of Australia's most popular and literary novelists - has received little sustained critical attention? This collection of essays examines the impact of Winton's work on understanding what it is to be Australian, Ëto be human, to make and question meaning. His novels and short stories are vernacular and lyrical, optimistic and dark, holding up a peculiarly 'Wintonesque' mirror through which Australians - and international readers, differently - can see themselves, refracted. Exploring various themes - such as childhood, masculinity, love, death, landscape, and b. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Winton, Tim -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Winton, Tim. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Australian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Australian literature. |
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20th century |
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Australia -- In literature.
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Australia. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
McCredden, Lyn, editor.
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O'Reilly, Nathanael, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tim Winton 9781742586069 (OCoLC)875886853 |
| ISBN |
9781742586281 electronic book |
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1742586287 electronic book |
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9781742586069 paper |
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