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The fiction of Tim Winton : earthed and sacred / Lyn MacCredden.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacCredden, Lyn, author.
- Series:
- Sydney studies in Australian literature.
- Sydney Studies in Australian Literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Winton, Tim--Criticism and interpretation.
- Winton, Tim.
- Fiction--History and criticism.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (159 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Sydney, Australia : Sydney University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- Lyn McCredden explores the eleven novels and four short story collections of Tim Winton, an author whose works span the literary and popular divide.
- Contents:
- Intro
- The Fiction of Tim Winton
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: A Writing Life
- Glittering Prizes
- Winton's Everyday Stories
- "The World Itself": Local and Global
- Childhood: Innocence and Experience
- Numinous Zones
- The Critical Debates
- 1: Words and Worlds
- Shallows: Reading the Wide World
- Writing a Self: Abjection and Meaning-making
- That Eye, the Sky: Beyond Language?
- Eyrie: Shifty Signs
- 2: "To Solicit a Becoming": Masculine and Feminine in the Fiction of Winton
- The Riders and the Terror of Identity
- Melancholy Men: The Turning and The Riders
- Breath: Grief and Dancing and Becoming a Man
- 3: Falling
- Falling: Myth and Experience
- Eyrie: Tom Keely as Falling Man
- "No Tribe to Claim Him but Family"
- Everyone Falls
- A Redemptive Tale?
- The Turning and "The Born-Again Business"
- 4: Narrative Redemptions
- More Than Democratic
- Cloudstreet's Comic Flood
- A Believable Redemption?
- Beyond Limits: Risk-taking, Yearning, Hoping
- Australian Sacredness?
- Breath: What Does Risk-taking Signify?
- 5: "Liquid Elites and Bonded Shame": Winton and Class Identity
- The Future of Class in Australia
- Writing Class
- Eyrie as Working-Class Lament
- Eyrie as Parodic Thriller
- Density and Volatility: Class in Cloudstreet
- Cloudstreet's Hybrid Languages
- 6: High and Popular: Straddling the Fiction Market
- Blurring the Lines: Literary and Popular Fiction
- Parodying the Genre
- Island Home: The Genre of Memoir
- 7: Becoming, Belonging
- How and Where to Belong
- Indigenous Belonging, White Belonging
- Gender Belonging
- Place and Belonging
- Dirt Music: Postcolonial Erotics and Literary Ancestors
- "The Irreplaceable Organic Estate"
- White Un-belonging
- 8: Winton's Narratives: Market, Reading, Impact.
- The Impact of Winton's Narratives
- Eyrie and Capitalism's Force Field
- Quantitative Answers: Winton's Sales Figures
- Winton's Preoccupations
- Vision, but Not Naïvety
- After the Bicentenary: Cloudstreet and Master of the Ghost Dreaming
- The Unredeemable Facts of History
- Australia, Land of Orphans
- Afterword
- Works Cited
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed March 22, 2018).
- ISBN:
- 1-74332-504-5
- 1-74332-506-1
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