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This book is an interdisciplinary and multicultural study of ancient and contemporary texts that encode women's spirituality. The contributors, using modern critical methods such as feminist theory, postculturalism, and the new historicisms, examine how the ideas in these texts are being reworked in different religious traditions. The volume encompasses both contemporary and historical contexts, tracing the roles, actions, writings, and beliefs of women in pre-Christian, Christian, Islamic, indigenous, and neo-pagan contexts. The book builds on three decades of feminist research into such areas as goddess worship, indigenous spiritualities, eco-feminism, biblical hermeneutics, Christian and Islamic mysticism, subversive poetics, and mythological systems inside and outside the mainstream.
In The Fiction of Tim Winton, Lyn McCredden explores the work of a
major Australian author who bridges the literary-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 country's most enduringly popular writers:
Cloudstreet was voted 'Australia's favourite book' 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 Winton'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 - and challenged - the
categories of the 'popular' and the 'literary'.
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Intimate Horizons (Paperback)
Bill Ashcroft, Frances Devlin-Glass, Lyn McCredden
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In Tim Winton: Critical Essays, the editors have brought together
an international lineup of scholars - new voices and established -
to consider the work of Australia's most celebrated and loved
contemporary novelist. From Shallows to Eyrie, this book extends
beyond the singular novels, into thematics identified across
Winton's body of work, thinking through his place and reception in
Australian and world literature. The author Tim Winton is both a
popular and literary success, and this volume has been conceived
for a critical audience of professionals and students, as well as
for the readers who have made Tim Winton a household name.
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