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Mind the country : Tim Winton's fiction / Salhia Ben-Messahel.
- Title
- Mind the country : Tim Winton's fiction / Salhia Ben-Messahel.
- Author
- Ben-Messahel, Salhia, 1963-
- Publication
- Crawley, W.A. : University of Western Australia Press, 2006.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PR9619.3.W585 Z56 2006 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- ix, 277 p. : ill., map; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Considers aspects of the writer's imagination, and shows how the environment in Winton's novels, whether set in Australia or elsewhere, is presented in an unmistakably Australian way.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-261) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Map of places featured in Tim Winton's books -- I. Tim Winton : from man to artist -- II. The major themes and their significance -- 1. Family stories -- 2. Brawling love and loving hate -- 3. Solitude in an empty world -- 4. Nostalgia -- 5. The marginal self -- III. Narrating the country, constructing the body of fiction -- 1. Topography -- 2. Margin and centre -- 3. Telling the untold, voicing the land and people -- 4. Symbols, signs and language -- IV. Regionalism : the writing of the land and people.
- ISBN
- 9781920694692
- 1920694692
- LCCN
- ^^2007367135
- OCLC
- 74906759
- SCSB-11204512
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library