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Issue Details: First known date: 1993... 1993 Reading Tim Winton
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Pymble, Turramurra - Pymble - St Ives area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,:Angus and Robertson , 1993 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
In His Own Words: The Life and Times of Tim Winton, Richard Rossiter (interviewer), single work interview (p. 1-14)
On the Verge : Place in the Early Fiction of Tim Winton, Beth Watzke , single work criticism (p. 15-28)
Singing the Great Creator: The Spiritual in Tim Winton's Novels, Yvonne Miels , single work criticism (p. 29-44)
Writing from the Margins: Representations of Gender and Class in Winton's Work, Lekkie Hopkins , single work criticism (p. 45-58)
Childhood in Tim Winton's Fiction, Brian Matthews , single work criticism (p. 59-71)
That Eye, the Past: History and Tim Winton's Fiction, Ffion Murphy , single work criticism (p. 73-86)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Notes:
Includes study questions compiled by Lyn Jacobs.

Works about this Work

Personal Trauma/Historical Trauma in Tim Winton's Dirt Music Barbara Arizti Martin , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Splintered Glass : Facets of Trauma in the Post-Colony and Beyond 2011; (p. 175-189)
Barbara Arizti looks at the way aspects of trauma are represented in Tim Winton's Dirty Music .
The Wide Brown Land : Literary Readings of Space and the Australian Continent Anthony J. Hassall , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australia : Making Space Meaningful 2007; (p. 45-53)
'In his 1987 poem "Louvres" Les Murray speaks of journeys to 'the three quarters of our continent/set aside for mystic poetry" (2002, 239), a very different reading of Australia's inner space to A.D. Hope's 1939 vision of it as '[t]he Arabian desert of the human mind" (1966, 13) In this paper I review the opposed, contradictory ways in which the inner space of Australia has been perceived by Australian writers, and note changes in those literary perceptions, especially in the last fifty years. In that time what was routinely categerised, by Patrick White among others, as the "Dead heart" (1974, 94) - the disappointing desert encountered by nineteenth=century European explorers looking for another America -has been re-mythologised as the "Red Centre," the symbolic, living heart of the continent. What Barcroft Boake's 1897 poem hauntingly portrayed as out where the dead men lie" (140,-2) is now more commonly imagined as a site of spiritual exploration and psychic renewal, a place where Aboriginal identification with the land is respected and even shared. This change was powerfully symbolised in 1985 by the return to the traditional Anangu owners of the title deeds to the renamed Uluru, the great stone sited at the centre of the continent; but while this re-mythologising has been increasingly influential in literary readings, older, more negative constructions of that space as hostile and sterile have persisted, so that contradictory attitudes towards the inner space of Australia continue to be expressed. In reviewing a selection of those readings, I am conscious that they both distort and influence broader cultural perceptions. I am also aware that literary reconstructions of the past reflect both the attitudes of the time depicted and the current attitudes of the writer, and that separating the two is seldom simple. Finally, I am conscious of the connections between literary readings and those in art and film of the kind documented by Roslynn Hanes in her 1998 study Seeking the Centre: the Australian Desert in Literature, Art and Film, and those in television and advertising. I have however, with the exception of the Postscript, limited my paper to literary readings, with an emphasis on works published since Haynes's study.' (Author's abstract p. 45)
[Review] Reading Tim Winton [and] Crossing the Gap Venero Armanno , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Imago : New Writing , July vol. 6 no. 2 1994; (p. 95-96)

— Review of Reading Tim Winton 1993 anthology criticism interview ; Crossing the Gap : A Novelist's Essays Christopher Koch , 1987 selected work essay criticism autobiography
Narcotic Entanglements: Recent Works of Australian Literary Criticism Peter Pierce , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 16 no. 3 1994; (p. 352-355)

— Review of A Gallop of Fire : Katharine Susannah Prichard: on Guard for Humanity : a Study of Creative Personality Jack Beasley , 1993 single work criticism biography ; Helplessly Tangled in Female Arms and Legs : Elizabeth Jolley's Fictions Paul Salzman , 1993 single work criticism ; Atomic Fiction: The Novels of David Ireland Ken Gelder , 1993 selected work criticism ; Reading Tim Winton 1993 anthology criticism interview ; Elizabeth Jolley : New Critical Essays 1991 anthology criticism
Untitled Tony Kane , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 7 no. 4 1993; (p. 3-4)

— Review of Reading Tim Winton 1993 anthology criticism interview
Untitled Tony Kane , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 7 no. 4 1993; (p. 3-4)

— Review of Reading Tim Winton 1993 anthology criticism interview
Narcotic Entanglements: Recent Works of Australian Literary Criticism Peter Pierce , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 16 no. 3 1994; (p. 352-355)

— Review of A Gallop of Fire : Katharine Susannah Prichard: on Guard for Humanity : a Study of Creative Personality Jack Beasley , 1993 single work criticism biography ; Helplessly Tangled in Female Arms and Legs : Elizabeth Jolley's Fictions Paul Salzman , 1993 single work criticism ; Atomic Fiction: The Novels of David Ireland Ken Gelder , 1993 selected work criticism ; Reading Tim Winton 1993 anthology criticism interview ; Elizabeth Jolley : New Critical Essays 1991 anthology criticism
[Review] Reading Tim Winton [and] Crossing the Gap Venero Armanno , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Imago : New Writing , July vol. 6 no. 2 1994; (p. 95-96)

— Review of Reading Tim Winton 1993 anthology criticism interview ; Crossing the Gap : A Novelist's Essays Christopher Koch , 1987 selected work essay criticism autobiography
The Wide Brown Land : Literary Readings of Space and the Australian Continent Anthony J. Hassall , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australia : Making Space Meaningful 2007; (p. 45-53)
'In his 1987 poem "Louvres" Les Murray speaks of journeys to 'the three quarters of our continent/set aside for mystic poetry" (2002, 239), a very different reading of Australia's inner space to A.D. Hope's 1939 vision of it as '[t]he Arabian desert of the human mind" (1966, 13) In this paper I review the opposed, contradictory ways in which the inner space of Australia has been perceived by Australian writers, and note changes in those literary perceptions, especially in the last fifty years. In that time what was routinely categerised, by Patrick White among others, as the "Dead heart" (1974, 94) - the disappointing desert encountered by nineteenth=century European explorers looking for another America -has been re-mythologised as the "Red Centre," the symbolic, living heart of the continent. What Barcroft Boake's 1897 poem hauntingly portrayed as out where the dead men lie" (140,-2) is now more commonly imagined as a site of spiritual exploration and psychic renewal, a place where Aboriginal identification with the land is respected and even shared. This change was powerfully symbolised in 1985 by the return to the traditional Anangu owners of the title deeds to the renamed Uluru, the great stone sited at the centre of the continent; but while this re-mythologising has been increasingly influential in literary readings, older, more negative constructions of that space as hostile and sterile have persisted, so that contradictory attitudes towards the inner space of Australia continue to be expressed. In reviewing a selection of those readings, I am conscious that they both distort and influence broader cultural perceptions. I am also aware that literary reconstructions of the past reflect both the attitudes of the time depicted and the current attitudes of the writer, and that separating the two is seldom simple. Finally, I am conscious of the connections between literary readings and those in art and film of the kind documented by Roslynn Hanes in her 1998 study Seeking the Centre: the Australian Desert in Literature, Art and Film, and those in television and advertising. I have however, with the exception of the Postscript, limited my paper to literary readings, with an emphasis on works published since Haynes's study.' (Author's abstract p. 45)
Personal Trauma/Historical Trauma in Tim Winton's Dirt Music Barbara Arizti Martin , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Splintered Glass : Facets of Trauma in the Post-Colony and Beyond 2011; (p. 175-189)
Barbara Arizti looks at the way aspects of trauma are represented in Tim Winton's Dirty Music .
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