Tim Winton Critical Essays

Tim Winton : Critical Essays
ISBN: 9781742586069
Publication Date: 1 August 2014

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 our understanding of 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.

About the Author

Lyn McCredden teaches and researches at Deakin University, Melbourne. She publishes on Australian literature, including poetry, fiction, Indigenous writing, and literature and the sacred.

Her most recent critical volumes are Intimate Horizons: The Postcolonial Sacred (2009, with Bill Ashcroft and Frances Devlin-Glass) and Luminous Moments: The Contemporary Sacred (2010). She is now engaged in a three-year research project on Tim Winton's fiction and the sacred in literature.