Elaine Lindsay Elaine Lindsay i(A6422 works by) (a.k.a. E. Lindsay; Elaine Stuart Lindsay)
Born: Established: 1948 Adelaide, South Australia, ;
Gender: Female
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1 Passion for Australian Literature Encouraged Budding Writers Elaine Lindsay , 2019 single work obituary (for Irene Stevens )
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 5 February 2019;
1 Be-yond Becoming : The Shared Features of Art-making and Constructing a Narrative of the Imagined Future Debra Phillips , Elaine Lindsay , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Life Writing , vol. 15 no. 1 2018; (p. 107-119)

'Both art-making and creating a ‘Narrative of the Imagined Future’ call on the imagination to conceive a finished object before beginning its construction. Both processes open a way into the unknown, where one searches for what could become real. In this paper I employ an auto-ethnographic approach to demonstrate the similarities between art-making and the writing of a self-narrative, referencing my double portrait, ‘Be-yond Becoming’ (which draws on van Eyck’s ‘The Arnolfini Portrait’), and the circumstances behind its generation.

'Narratives are powerful vehicles. As we tell the story of who we want to become we set ourselves to live out that story. The virtual is actualised and the imagined is made real. In this instance, I outline how a rupture in my self-narrative allowed another self-narrative to emerge. Art-practice guided me out of an episode of depression as I replaced my self-narrative of being a failed teacher with a new self-narrative, that of becoming an artist.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 [Review Essay] The Fiction of Thea Astley Elaine Lindsay , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , May vol. 41 no. 2 2017; (p. 268-269)
'Thea Astley published sixteen novels and collections of short stories between 1958 and 1999. She died in 2004, a week ahead of her eightieth birthday, but she blazes again, in all her fiercely compassionate crankiness, in Susan Sheridan’s analysis of her fictions and in Karen Lamb's biography, Inventing Her Own Weather (2015). These two books—Sheridan on the work and Lamb on the life—are essential companions for a full appreciation of Astley and, more generally, twentieth-century Australian literary culture.' (Introduction)
1 Using Diary Writing : A Narrative of Radical Courage Debra Phillips , Elaine Lindsay , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , no. 38 2017;
'This article considers the use of diary entries as primary source material in autoethnographic research. It examines how the act of diary writing can reveal a trajectory into, and away from, an experience of depression and how diary entries can provide grounds for conjecture about possible futures and imagined self-narratives. It describes how ‘radical courage’, as identified by Phillips, can displace suicidal ideation and bolster a new self-narrative of an imagined future. The article highlights the value of diaries. More than a source of raw data for research and creative writing projects, they offer diarists a safe place to explore and create alternative and productive selfnarratives. In their unedited state, they are a first-person, present-tense record of emotional states, showing how context and events impact upon an individual’s life. Diary entries can reveal to the diarist and researcher alike the beginnings of a new selfnarrative that is not yet fully imagined nor articulated. The article includes selected diary entries and reflections on depression as a lived experience to show the connection between radical courage and a narrative of the future. This narrative form – a narrative of the imagined future – is commended for its therapeutic potential as a cognitive strategy to build resilience. Through writing and speaking, the story develops as it is lived; by being lived, the story becomes embodied.' (Introduction)
1 Review : Christian Mysticism and Australian Poetry Elaine Lindsay , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 14 no. 2 2014;

— Review of Christian Mysticism and Australian Poetry Toby Davidson , 2013 multi chapter work criticism
1 Toby Davidson. Christian Mysticism and Australian Poetry Elaine Lindsay , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 13 no. 3 2013;

— Review of Christian Mysticism and Australian Poetry Toby Davidson , 2013 multi chapter work criticism
1 Faithful Doctor Fought for Women Elaine Lindsay , 2011 single work obituary (for Patricia Brennan )
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 8 April 2011; (p. 14)
1 [Review] Barbara Hanrahan : A Biography Elaine Lindsay , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 25 no. 3 2010; (p. 84-86)

— Review of Barbara Hanrahan : A Biography Annette Stewart , 2010 single work biography
1 'As One Whom His Mother Comforteth, So Will I Comfort You : Elizabeth Jolley's Catalogue of Consolation Elaine Lindsay , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 66 no. 1 2006; (p. 52-65)
1 Barbara Hanrahan Elaine Lindsay , 2004 single work biography
— Appears in: Australian Writers , 1950-1975 2004; (p. 97-106)
1 Hanrahan, Barbara Janice Elaine Lindsay , 2000 single work biography
— Appears in: Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing 2000; (p. 134)
1 Astley, Thea Elaine Lindsay , 2000 single work biography
— Appears in: Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing 2000; (p. 20)
1 Thea Astley : Pre-Vatican II Catholicism to Post-Christian Feminism Elaine Lindsay , 2000 single work criticism
— Appears in: Rewriting God : Spirituality in Contemporary Australian Women's Fiction 2000; (p. 89-154; bib.283-288)
1 Barbara Hanrahan : Held in the Eye of God Elaine Lindsay , 2000 single work criticism
— Appears in: Rewriting God : Spirituality in Contemporary Australian Women's Fiction 2000; (p. 213-276; bib.288-293)
1 Elizabeth Jolley : Comfort in Perplexity Elaine Lindsay , 2000 single work criticism
— Appears in: Rewriting God : Spirituality in Contemporary Australian Women's Fiction 2000; (p. 155-212; bib. 294-299)
1 2 y separately published work icon Rewriting God : Spirituality in Contemporary Australian Women's Fiction Elaine Lindsay , Amsterdam : Rodopi , 2000 Z797910 2000 selected work criticism

Analyses women's spirituality in the larger context of Australian Desert Spirituality, concluding that women have been developing their own forms of religious expression. General chapters examine'malestream' spirituality, on the one hand, and explore the way 'real' women express their religious and spiritual experiences in non-fiction; the next three chapters offer a close investigation of the fictions of Thea Astley, Elizabeth Jolley and Barbara Hanrahan.

1 Confessions of an Editor Elaine Lindsay , 1999 single work biography
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , March no. 186 1999; (p. 10-11)
1 Spiritual Subversions Elaine Lindsay , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Feminist Studies , vol. 14 no. 30 1999; (p. 357-366)
1 Land and Identity in Barbara Hanrahan's Writing Elaine Lindsay , 1998 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Land and Identity : Proceedings of the 1997 Conference Held at The University of New England Armidale New South Wales 27-30 September 1997 1998; (p. 174-178)
1 The Diaries of Barbara Hanrahan : Introduction Elaine Lindsay , 1998 single work biography
— Appears in: The Diaries of Barbara Hanrahan 1998; (p. xixxiii)
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