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Title: |
The Fiction of Tim Winton |
| Sub-title: |
Earthed and Sacred |
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| By (author): |
Lyn McCredden |
| ISBN10-13: |
1743325037 : 9781743325032 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
250x175mm |
| Pages: |
166 |
| Weight: |
.265 Kg. |
| Published: |
Sydney University Press - February 2017 |
| List Price: |
40.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 9 |
| Subjects: |
Literature: history & criticism |
| In The Fiction of Tim Winton, Lyn McCredden explores the work of a major Australian author who bridges the literaryâ popular divide.Tim Winton has won the Miles Franklin Literary Award a record four times and has twice been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His novels and short stories are widely studied in schools and universities, and have been lauded by critics both in Australia and internationally. Unusually for an Australian literary author, he is also one of the countryâ s most enduringly popular writers: Cloudstreet was voted â Australiaâ s favourite bookâ in a poll conducted by the ABC, his books regularly appear on bestseller lists, and his stories have been adapted for the stage, television, cinema and opera. In this wide-ranging study of Wintonâ s work and career, McCredden considers how Winton has sustained a strong mainstream following while exploring complex themes and moving between genres. Attending to both secular and sacred frames of reference, she considers his treatment of class, gender, place, landscape and belonging, and shows how a compassion for human falling and redemption permeates his work. She demonstrates how his engagement with these recurring ideas has deepened and changed over time, and how he has moved between â and challenged â the categories of the â popularâ and the â literaryâ . |
| Table of Contents: |
| Acknowledgements; Introduction: a writing life; Words and worlds; 'To solicit a becoming': masculine and feminine in the fiction of Winton; Falling; Narrative redemptions; 'Liquid elites and bonded shame': Winton and class identity; High and popular: straddling the fiction market; Becoming, belonging; Winton's narratives: market, reading, impact; Afterword; Works cited; Index. |
| Awards / Prizes: |
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CHASS Australian Prize
2017
Australia
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Walter McRae Russell Award
2019
Australia
Awarded By: Elizabeth Webby, Brigitta Olubas, Maggie Nolan |
| Reviews: |
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"The Fiction of Tim Winton is an intelligent and exhaustively researched contribution to studies of Winton's writing. This book is also an example of sophisticated and immensely readable literary analysis." -- Jay Daniel Thompson, The Australian
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'Add[s] something new and distinct not only to the study of Tim Winton, but also to that of Australian literature.' -- Tony Hughes-d'Aeth -- Australian Book Review
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'It is hard to think of someone more capable of sympathetically explicating his literary and intellectual project. McCredden's The Fiction of Tim Winton is a sensitive, engaged, learned and very careful, though still accessible, argument for the value of this project.' -- Nathan Hollier -- Australian Literary Studies
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'The Fiction of Tim Winton offers readers a broad and insightful view of the writing, career and cultural context of Tim Winton. Even for those familiar with the Australian context, there is much added value to be found here. It is refreshing to read such in-depth analysis of a single author.' -- Tobias McCorkell -- Journal of Postcolonial Writing
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'[McCredden] rightly challenges the sanctimonious ideologists who seem to demand an 'already solved'-and acceptable-vision in a book ... This book will become a standard guide for those seeking an introduction to Winton's work.' -- Paul Sharrad -- This Year's Work in English
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