Journal of the association for the study of Australian literature, 2016
Tim Winton's fiction has divided critics. His writing has been characterised as nostalgic (Di... more Tim Winton's fiction has divided critics. His writing has been characterised as nostalgic (Dixon), as too Christian (Goldsworthy), as blokey, and even misogynist (Schurholz). He has been pilloried on the blog site Worst of Perth, with its 'Wintoning Project,' which calls for contributions of 'Australian or Western Australian schmaltz, in the style of our most famous literary son, master dispenser of literary cheese and fake WA nostalgia Tim Winton' (online). And he has won the top Australian literary prize, The Miles Franklin Award, four times (Shallows, 1984; Cloudstreet, 1992; Dirt Music, 2002; and Breath, 2009). Winton's oeuvre spans three decades. It remains highly recognisable in its use of Australian vernacular and its sun-filled, beachy Western Australian settings; but it has also taken some dramatic, dark and probingly self-questioning turns. While critics often look for common strands in an author's oeuvre, it is revealing to consider development...
Sacred Exchange Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda LYN MCCREDDEN How 1s SACREDNESS IMAGINED... more Sacred Exchange Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda LYN MCCREDDEN How 1s SACREDNESS IMAGINED in postmodern and post-colonial cultures such as contemporary Australia? It was common-place for cultural critics in the later twentieth century to situate the formation of' ...
Publikationsansicht. 50692106. Contemporary poetry and the sacred: Vincent Buckley, Les Murray an... more Publikationsansicht. 50692106. Contemporary poetry and the sacred: Vincent Buckley, Les Murray and Samuel Wagan Watson (2007). McCredden, Lyn. Abstract. VINCENT Buckley's Golden Builders and Other Poems (1976) is ...
Publikationsansicht. 52948141. Sacred exchange: Peter Carey`s Oscar and Lucinda (2005).McCredden,... more Publikationsansicht. 52948141. Sacred exchange: Peter Carey`s Oscar and Lucinda (2005).McCredden, Lyn. Details der Publikation. Download, http://www.deakin.edu.au/dro/view/ DU:30000743. Herausgeber, Rodopi. Mitarbeiter, Gaile, Andreas. ...
Inside and Outside the Traditions The Changing Shapes of Feminist Spiritualities Frances Devlin-G... more Inside and Outside the Traditions The Changing Shapes of Feminist Spiritualities Frances Devlin-Glass and Lyn McCredden For many contemporary women, their relationships to the institu-tions and traditions of religious faith are constructed on shifting ground. While ...
Journal article by Lyn Mccredden; Australian Literary …, 1997
I suppose somewhere in secondary school I got the idea that doing the school magazine or writing ... more I suppose somewhere in secondary school I got the idea that doing the school magazine or writing for it, was up my path. And writing's a wonderful resort for people who are unhappy, and of course in your late teens you're not living if you're not unhappy. So I wrote more and more and ...
12 The Future of Feminist Spiritualities Frances Devlin-Glass and Lyn McCredden We hope that the ... more 12 The Future of Feminist Spiritualities Frances Devlin-Glass and Lyn McCredden We hope that the essays in this book will awaken a desire in their readers to embrace the future, exploring new modes of under-standing and practising spirituality. Or do they underline the fierce ...
Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian …, 2010
This book argues that Australian writers of fiction and poetry in the second half of the twentiet... more This book argues that Australian writers of fiction and poetry in the second half of the twentieth century, who were influenced by indigenous understandings of land, kinship and spirituality, 'led the way in uncovering a sacredness peculiar to Australia sacredness imagined in ...
Journal article by Lyn Mccredden; Australian Literary …, 2003
Here are the poets, out in force for someone they love--a member of the inner sanctum, the factio... more Here are the poets, out in force for someone they love--a member of the inner sanctum, the faction, their club. And someone they want to promote to the wider world, but only to a certain extent. If the wider world doesn't understand and pay homage, that's its loss. After all, this ...
As scholars, critics, reviewers and students of Australian literature, what are our values and ou... more As scholars, critics, reviewers and students of Australian literature, what are our values and our impact? Does what we research and write make any difference, make anything happen, anywhere? That is what the funders of our discipline are asking, but also what we need to ask of ourselves. This is not going to be a self-aggrandizing article, nor a nihilistic, hands-thrown-up kind of essay-Whence the Humanities? Whence Literary Studies? Whence literature?-although there may be something of that along the way. The most recent, 2018 round of Australian Research Council (ARC) grants is one arguably gloomy indicator that Literary Studies and its sister disciplines of Cultural Studies and Creative Writing are not doing well, and not being seen, in the national fields of research. Of course Literary Studies may have migrated into interdisciplinary locations, and is in now 'in competition' with other language disciplines, so is it becoming almost invisible on ARC platforms? This pape...
Abstract: there are many forms of memory in post-colonial Australia, and many kinds of haunting. ... more Abstract: there are many forms of memory in post-colonial Australia, and many kinds of haunting. This paper investigates the poetry of contemporary Indigenous poets Sam Wagan Watson and Tony Birch, and reads the script of the Federal Government’s February 2008 Apology to the Stolen Generations, asking how and why the nation should be haunted – historically and imaginatively- into the future.
Journal of the association for the study of Australian literature, 2016
Tim Winton's fiction has divided critics. His writing has been characterised as nostalgic (Di... more Tim Winton's fiction has divided critics. His writing has been characterised as nostalgic (Dixon), as too Christian (Goldsworthy), as blokey, and even misogynist (Schurholz). He has been pilloried on the blog site Worst of Perth, with its 'Wintoning Project,' which calls for contributions of 'Australian or Western Australian schmaltz, in the style of our most famous literary son, master dispenser of literary cheese and fake WA nostalgia Tim Winton' (online). And he has won the top Australian literary prize, The Miles Franklin Award, four times (Shallows, 1984; Cloudstreet, 1992; Dirt Music, 2002; and Breath, 2009). Winton's oeuvre spans three decades. It remains highly recognisable in its use of Australian vernacular and its sun-filled, beachy Western Australian settings; but it has also taken some dramatic, dark and probingly self-questioning turns. While critics often look for common strands in an author's oeuvre, it is revealing to consider development...
Sacred Exchange Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda LYN MCCREDDEN How 1s SACREDNESS IMAGINED... more Sacred Exchange Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda LYN MCCREDDEN How 1s SACREDNESS IMAGINED in postmodern and post-colonial cultures such as contemporary Australia? It was common-place for cultural critics in the later twentieth century to situate the formation of' ...
Publikationsansicht. 50692106. Contemporary poetry and the sacred: Vincent Buckley, Les Murray an... more Publikationsansicht. 50692106. Contemporary poetry and the sacred: Vincent Buckley, Les Murray and Samuel Wagan Watson (2007). McCredden, Lyn. Abstract. VINCENT Buckley's Golden Builders and Other Poems (1976) is ...
Publikationsansicht. 52948141. Sacred exchange: Peter Carey`s Oscar and Lucinda (2005).McCredden,... more Publikationsansicht. 52948141. Sacred exchange: Peter Carey`s Oscar and Lucinda (2005).McCredden, Lyn. Details der Publikation. Download, http://www.deakin.edu.au/dro/view/ DU:30000743. Herausgeber, Rodopi. Mitarbeiter, Gaile, Andreas. ...
Inside and Outside the Traditions The Changing Shapes of Feminist Spiritualities Frances Devlin-G... more Inside and Outside the Traditions The Changing Shapes of Feminist Spiritualities Frances Devlin-Glass and Lyn McCredden For many contemporary women, their relationships to the institu-tions and traditions of religious faith are constructed on shifting ground. While ...
Journal article by Lyn Mccredden; Australian Literary …, 1997
I suppose somewhere in secondary school I got the idea that doing the school magazine or writing ... more I suppose somewhere in secondary school I got the idea that doing the school magazine or writing for it, was up my path. And writing's a wonderful resort for people who are unhappy, and of course in your late teens you're not living if you're not unhappy. So I wrote more and more and ...
12 The Future of Feminist Spiritualities Frances Devlin-Glass and Lyn McCredden We hope that the ... more 12 The Future of Feminist Spiritualities Frances Devlin-Glass and Lyn McCredden We hope that the essays in this book will awaken a desire in their readers to embrace the future, exploring new modes of under-standing and practising spirituality. Or do they underline the fierce ...
Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian …, 2010
This book argues that Australian writers of fiction and poetry in the second half of the twentiet... more This book argues that Australian writers of fiction and poetry in the second half of the twentieth century, who were influenced by indigenous understandings of land, kinship and spirituality, 'led the way in uncovering a sacredness peculiar to Australia sacredness imagined in ...
Journal article by Lyn Mccredden; Australian Literary …, 2003
Here are the poets, out in force for someone they love--a member of the inner sanctum, the factio... more Here are the poets, out in force for someone they love--a member of the inner sanctum, the faction, their club. And someone they want to promote to the wider world, but only to a certain extent. If the wider world doesn't understand and pay homage, that's its loss. After all, this ...
As scholars, critics, reviewers and students of Australian literature, what are our values and ou... more As scholars, critics, reviewers and students of Australian literature, what are our values and our impact? Does what we research and write make any difference, make anything happen, anywhere? That is what the funders of our discipline are asking, but also what we need to ask of ourselves. This is not going to be a self-aggrandizing article, nor a nihilistic, hands-thrown-up kind of essay-Whence the Humanities? Whence Literary Studies? Whence literature?-although there may be something of that along the way. The most recent, 2018 round of Australian Research Council (ARC) grants is one arguably gloomy indicator that Literary Studies and its sister disciplines of Cultural Studies and Creative Writing are not doing well, and not being seen, in the national fields of research. Of course Literary Studies may have migrated into interdisciplinary locations, and is in now 'in competition' with other language disciplines, so is it becoming almost invisible on ARC platforms? This pape...
Abstract: there are many forms of memory in post-colonial Australia, and many kinds of haunting. ... more Abstract: there are many forms of memory in post-colonial Australia, and many kinds of haunting. This paper investigates the poetry of contemporary Indigenous poets Sam Wagan Watson and Tony Birch, and reads the script of the Federal Government’s February 2008 Apology to the Stolen Generations, asking how and why the nation should be haunted – historically and imaginatively- into the future.
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