Lyn Mccredden
Biographic Data
| ID | 198527 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lyn Mccredden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccredden |
| SIGNATURE | MCCREDDEN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3956-0964 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Imagining Incarnation
What role can the imagination and literary language play in understanding ‘the sacred’, specifically theologies of incarnation? Australian novelist Patrick White’s Voss is read, in this article, as a testing ground for the ways in which human imagination can nurture incarnational longings and beliefs; but also for registering the limits of human language confronting what can be experienced semper processus. That is, this article argues that knowl…
A Post-Colonial Ontology? Tim Winton’s The Riders and the Challenge to White-Settler Identity
Through a reading of Australian non-Indigenous author Tim Winton and his novel The Riders, this essay seeks to shake to the very roots white-settler understandings of identity and belonging. The essay treads respectfully into the field of Australian identity, recognizing that Indigenous people’s ancient and sacred relationship with country and the formation of treaties with the nation, are now rightfully central on national agendas. However, this…
Tim Winton
The fiction of Australian author Tim Winton is read widely in Australia and China, as well as the U.K. and the U.S.A. However, critics seem to differ as to whether his work should be considered as literary, or whether it is popular. Although Winton's work has received many prizes, including the prestigious Australian Literary prize, the Miles Franklin award, four times, some critics 'worry' about Winton's popular appeal: his use of vernacular, hi…
Poetry and the Limits of Language
This essay argues that poetic language offers the possibility of meaning and value, and simultaneously points beyond itself, to the limits of language, to a space differently configured as erasure, silence, the unsignifiable. What does it suggest, epistemologically and ontologically, if we acknowledge this double action of poetic language? What might this space beyond language be, and what difference does it make if we acknowledge this space? The…
Crete
This essay argues that the poetry of Australian poet Dorothy Porter, exemplified in her collection, Crete, operates along contrapuntal lines. The poet's daemonic energy celebrates the ancient island culture, expressed variously in outbursts of democratic irreverence or pagan sensuousness or hierophantic exuberance or queer subversiveness. However, this celebration is met by what reaches out beyond the celebration of aesthetic energy, towards a si…
Delight and Revolution
This is not an essay claiming that literature should be the impetus for political (subversive, revisionary, transforming) acts. Nor is it an essay promoting the desire for literature to align itself with political/ ideological positions. Well before Trotsky's Revolution and Literature, and stretching back to Plato's famous diatribe against the danger of poets in Book X of The Republic, critics have discoursed variously on the relationship of lite…
Ten Canoes
In a reading of the Rolf de Heer film Ten Canoes this article explores the pervasive, contemporary challenge of culture difference and its representation. Focusing on notions of sacredness, as one node of extreme difference, the article argues that older formulations of sacredness which bifurcated spirit and flesh are now being replaced by more holistic understandings. As western film audiences engage with representations of difference in Indigen…
Counter-Poetics
â Michel Foucault defined history as â the discourse of powerâ (Society 68), arguing that the function of a â counter-historyâ is â to show that laws deceive, that kings wear masks, that power creates illusions, and the historians tell liesâ (Bainbridge 58). Writing on the relationship of poetry to power, critic Simon Bainbridge argues, citing Byronâ s Don Juan, that in â the face of a model of â Historyâ which can only take â things in the gross…
Contemporary Poetry and the Sacred
Amongst contemporary Australian poets there are those whose work can be classed as overtly religious, whose poetry adheres to older, transcendental models of signification, to language and things in intimate, sacred relationship; and there are those poets who have gone along with the post-structural and postmodern loosening of such ties, diving into the various streams of linguistic scepticism. This essay traces the work of three poets—Vincent Bu…
Postcolonial displacements, popular music and the sacred
This essay, through a theorized analysis of Australian popular song lyrics, investigates a range of understandings of “home”, including the exclusions and sacred connotations that inform the term. Against accusations of mere sentimentality or nostalgia regarding a desire for “home” as familiar and comforting and in response to Levinas’s related arguments that a desire for home is at the root of splitting “humanity into natives and strangers”, it …
Untranscended / Life Itself’
There are many ways to peel an onion: sharp knife and tears; under water like your mother taught you; surreptitiously, creeping in, layer by layer; or with sunglasses on. And cunning poet Pam Brown knows them all. There they are, those devastatingly onion-like little poems, with furled skins and layers, offering up biting streetscapes and cafes, half-remembered far-away places, distant friends, 'rock & roll', and lost, ordinary cities; that decep…
Familiar Compound Spirit’
Here are the poets, out in force for someone they loveâ 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 man who died young was both knowable and a mystery, full of 'awkward grace' and loneliness, even as he was loved and revered
Feminist Poetics of Sacredtne
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, poststructuralism, 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 contets, tracing the roles, actions, writings, and beliefs …
Feminist poetics of the sacred
By What Sign / Are You Walking?’
Argues that Rodriguez's poetry is defined by a 'double debt: both to Romanticism's prophetic, empowered rhetoric, and to Modernism's growing doubts about the limits and efficacy of that power. For Rodriguez, second wave feminism can be seen to complicate further this double debt
Transgressing Language
A number of contradictions shape the poetry of Polish-Australian writer Ania Walwicz. These contradictions are bred partly by the literary theory which has so insistently surrounded her work, and, it will be argued, are partly inherent in the enterprise of avant-garde or experimental poetry. Speaking in 1987 about Walwicz's 'no speak', an interviewer states: 'Yes, that's what I find disturbing in this poem, the sense of loss of communication and …
James McAuley’s Captain Quiros
â Attempts to give this narrative poem a new reading in the light of modern critical theory, calling it a neglected work that creates in the critic a desire â to more fully interpretâ it.â (Robert Ross, Australian Literary Criticism, 1945-1988, p. 254.)
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James McAuley’s Captain Quiros
â Attempts to give this narrative poem a new reading in the light of modern critical theory, calling it a neglected work that creates in the critic a desire â to more fully interpretâ it.â (Robert Ross, Australian Literary Criticism, 1945-1988, p. 254.)
Transgressing Language
A number of contradictions shape the poetry of Polish-Australian writer Ania Walwicz. These contradictions are bred partly by the literary theory which has so insistently surrounded her work, and, it will be argued, are partly inherent in the enterprise of avant-garde or experimental poetry. Speaking in 1987 about Walwicz's 'no speak', an interviewer states: 'Yes, that's what I find disturbing in this poem, the sense of loss of communication and …
By What Sign / Are You Walking?’
Argues that Rodriguez's poetry is defined by a 'double debt: both to Romanticism's prophetic, empowered rhetoric, and to Modernism's growing doubts about the limits and efficacy of that power. For Rodriguez, second wave feminism can be seen to complicate further this double debt
Feminist Poetics of Sacredtne
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, poststructuralism, 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 contets, tracing the roles, actions, writings, and beliefs …
Feminist poetics of the sacred
Familiar Compound Spirit’
Here are the poets, out in force for someone they loveâ 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 man who died young was both knowable and a mystery, full of 'awkward grace' and loneliness, even as he was loved and revered
Untranscended / Life Itself’
There are many ways to peel an onion: sharp knife and tears; under water like your mother taught you; surreptitiously, creeping in, layer by layer; or with sunglasses on. And cunning poet Pam Brown knows them all. There they are, those devastatingly onion-like little poems, with furled skins and layers, offering up biting streetscapes and cafes, half-remembered far-away places, distant friends, 'rock & roll', and lost, ordinary cities; that decep…
Contemporary Poetry and the Sacred
Amongst contemporary Australian poets there are those whose work can be classed as overtly religious, whose poetry adheres to older, transcendental models of signification, to language and things in intimate, sacred relationship; and there are those poets who have gone along with the post-structural and postmodern loosening of such ties, diving into the various streams of linguistic scepticism. This essay traces the work of three poets—Vincent Bu…
Postcolonial displacements, popular music and the sacred
This essay, through a theorized analysis of Australian popular song lyrics, investigates a range of understandings of “home”, including the exclusions and sacred connotations that inform the term. Against accusations of mere sentimentality or nostalgia regarding a desire for “home” as familiar and comforting and in response to Levinas’s related arguments that a desire for home is at the root of splitting “humanity into natives and strangers”, it …
Counter-Poetics
â Michel Foucault defined history as â the discourse of powerâ (Society 68), arguing that the function of a â counter-historyâ is â to show that laws deceive, that kings wear masks, that power creates illusions, and the historians tell liesâ (Bainbridge 58). Writing on the relationship of poetry to power, critic Simon Bainbridge argues, citing Byronâ s Don Juan, that in â the face of a model of â Historyâ which can only take â things in the gross…
Ten Canoes
In a reading of the Rolf de Heer film Ten Canoes this article explores the pervasive, contemporary challenge of culture difference and its representation. Focusing on notions of sacredness, as one node of extreme difference, the article argues that older formulations of sacredness which bifurcated spirit and flesh are now being replaced by more holistic understandings. As western film audiences engage with representations of difference in Indigen…
Delight and Revolution
This is not an essay claiming that literature should be the impetus for political (subversive, revisionary, transforming) acts. Nor is it an essay promoting the desire for literature to align itself with political/ ideological positions. Well before Trotsky's Revolution and Literature, and stretching back to Plato's famous diatribe against the danger of poets in Book X of The Republic, critics have discoursed variously on the relationship of lite…
Crete
This essay argues that the poetry of Australian poet Dorothy Porter, exemplified in her collection, Crete, operates along contrapuntal lines. The poet's daemonic energy celebrates the ancient island culture, expressed variously in outbursts of democratic irreverence or pagan sensuousness or hierophantic exuberance or queer subversiveness. However, this celebration is met by what reaches out beyond the celebration of aesthetic energy, towards a si…
Tim Winton
The fiction of Australian author Tim Winton is read widely in Australia and China, as well as the U.K. and the U.S.A. However, critics seem to differ as to whether his work should be considered as literary, or whether it is popular. Although Winton's work has received many prizes, including the prestigious Australian Literary prize, the Miles Franklin award, four times, some critics 'worry' about Winton's popular appeal: his use of vernacular, hi…
Poetry and the Limits of Language
This essay argues that poetic language offers the possibility of meaning and value, and simultaneously points beyond itself, to the limits of language, to a space differently configured as erasure, silence, the unsignifiable. What does it suggest, epistemologically and ontologically, if we acknowledge this double action of poetic language? What might this space beyond language be, and what difference does it make if we acknowledge this space? The…
A Post-Colonial Ontology? Tim Winton’s The Riders and the Challenge to White-Settler Identity
Through a reading of Australian non-Indigenous author Tim Winton and his novel The Riders, this essay seeks to shake to the very roots white-settler understandings of identity and belonging. The essay treads respectfully into the field of Australian identity, recognizing that Indigenous people’s ancient and sacred relationship with country and the formation of treaties with the nation, are now rightfully central on national agendas. However, this…
Imagining Incarnation
What role can the imagination and literary language play in understanding ‘the sacred’, specifically theologies of incarnation? Australian novelist Patrick White’s Voss is read, in this article, as a testing ground for the ways in which human imagination can nurture incarnational longings and beliefs; but also for registering the limits of human language confronting what can be experienced semper processus. That is, this article argues that knowl…
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