Tim Winton : Critical Essays.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Tim Winton, literature and the field of literary criticism -- 1 Water Bill Ashcroft -- 2 'Bursting with voice and doubleness': vernacular presence and visions of inclusiveness in Tim Winton's Cloudstreet Fiona Morrison -- 3 Winton's spectralities or What haunts Cloudstreet? Michael R. Griffiths -- 4 'Over the cliff and into the water': love, death and confession in Tim Winton's fiction Hannah Schürholz -- 5 The editing and publishing of Tim Winton in the United States Per Henningsgaard -- 6 From father to son: fatherhood and father-son relationships in Scission Nathanael O'Reilly -- 7 Writing childhood in Tim Winton's fiction Tanya Dalziell -- 8 The cycle of love and loss: melancholic masculinity in The Turning Bridget Grogan -- 9 Transcultural Winton: mnemonic landscapes of Australia Sissy Helff -- 10 From the sublime to the uncanny in Tim Winton's Breath Brigid Rooney -- 11 A not completely pointless beauty: Breath, exceptionality and neoliberalism Nicholas Birns -- 12 Extreme games, hegemony and narration: an interpretation of Tim Winton's Breath Hou Fei -- 13 'Intolerable significance': Tim Winton's Eyrie Lyn McCredden -- Appendix: The works of Tim Winton -- Notes on contributors -- Index.

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, ˜to 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 beauty - the book explores, questions, and debates Winton's fictional works and their contexts in order to understand more fully what is appealing, or unconsciously submerged, or worthy of celebration or interrogation.

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