Tim Dolin Tim Dolin i(A85922 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 Introduction Lucy Dougan , Tim Dolin , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Collected Poems of Fay Zwicky 2017; (p. 1-10)

'Gathered here for the first time are Fay Zwicky's seven collections of poetry, published between 1975 and 2006, along with previously uncollected poems zwicky has chosen to preserve, and her essay 'Border Crossings' (hereafter 'BC'), which eloquently and engagingly recorded the growth of her imagination and provides valuable insights into the atmosphere and character of her formative years. Zwicky has had a long and distinguished career in the arts: first as a classical pianist; later as a literature teacher, literary critic, editor and sometime short-story writer; but foremost as a poet. She has not been in the public eye very much in recent years - like many of her generation she has chosen not to go online - but nor has she remained silent. She has written and published individual poems and maintained the journal that she has been keeping almost continually for more than forty years. a writer's companion book, a poetry workbook, and a record of Zwicky's response to public and private events, the journal integrates and impassioned dialogue with what she is reading, often satirical accounts of her dreams, and candid (as well as guarded) quarrels with herself, friends and family, ideas, opinions, and the whole business of living a literary and creative life. One of the journal's big recurring questions, indeed is : how does a poet sustain a creative life in the unpromising soil of an isolated city of the edge of a desert? How does she go on fighting, in James Tulip's words, to affirm over and against an oppressive Australian silence a human (and particularly a woman's) voice and feelings' (31-32).'  (Introduction)

1 8 y separately published work icon The Collected Poems of Fay Zwicky Fay Zwicky , Tim Dolin (editor), Lucy Dougan (editor), Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2017 12015449 2017 selected work poetry

'This volume collects all of Fay Zwicky’s poetry, including previously uncollected and unpublished poems. It reveals an erudite, passionate, and highly inventive poet, whose consummate control of her craft places her at the summit of Australian poetry.' (Publication summary)

1 2 y separately published work icon Required Reading : Literature in Australian Schools since 1945 Tim Dolin (editor), Jo Jones (editor), Patricia Dowsett (editor), Clayton : Monash University Publishing , 2017 11969366 2017 anthology criticism

'Required Reading examines for the first time what students have read and studied in the disciplines of English and literary studies at Australian schools and universities after 1945. On the basis of this primary evidence, the authors challenge enduring myths of curriculum history, the history of literary studies, critical theory, and cultural studies. They fill out the picture of how students were encouraged to read: when, where, and in which particular pedagogical and wider social and historical contexts. They relate dramatic changes to curriculum frameworks and syllabi, teaching and learning methods, social and cultural values and assumptions, and the academic discipline of literary studies itself. Required Reading shows, finally, how flawed assumptions about the nature and history of English and Literature have, since the 1980s, obstructed the advancement of knowledge within both fields of scholarly endeavour. Contributors include: Tim Dolin, Joanne Jones, Patricia Dowsett, John Yiannakis, Ian Reid, Jacqueline Manuel, Don Carter, Wayne Sawyer, Larissa McLean Davies, Brenton Doecke, Prue Gill, Terry Hayes, Jenny de Reuck, Susan K Martin, Tully Barnett, Kate Douglas, Alice Healy-Ingram, Georgina Arnott, and Claire Jones.' (Publication summary)

1 Marcus Clarke, the Two George Eliots, and the History of Two Newspapers Tim Dolin , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , 31 October vol. 30 no. 3 2015;

'This essay is an experiment in a reader-focused historicism. It reconsiders the cultural-political circumstances under which Marcus Clarke rewrote George Eliot's ‘The Lifted Veil’, reframing it as a radical late departure from Eliot’s mid-Victorian realism, and from the Englishness of that realism. In doing so, the essay takes seriously the critical commonplace that texts ‘exist only in their readings’ (Frow 244), their ongoing uses. By recovering something from a later moment (and a sharp lateral movement) in the history of ‘The Lifted Veil’, I aim to show how that side-history, too, can illuminate the story, as well as our understanding of Eliot’s career and the wider history of the mid-Victorian novel.'

Source: Abstract.

1 1 Fiction and the Australian Reading Public 1888-1914 Tim Dolin , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: A Return to the Common Reader : Print Culture and the Novel, 1850–1900 2011; (p. 151-174)
1 Modern Reading History and Literary History: Australian Perspectives Tim Dolin , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Modern Australian Criticism and Theory 2010; (p. 127-138)
Tim Dolin argues that 'a literary history that is sensitive to reading histories can challenge the view that settler colonial readers were docile front-line agents in long-distance political domination.' Source: Modern Australian Criticism and Theory (2010)
1 1 y separately published work icon Australian Common Reader Tim Dolin , Perth : 2008 6112945 2008 website

'The Australian Common Reader is an interactive digital archive of the reading habits and practices of ordinary Australians since the nineteenth century. You can use it to search or browse for detailed information about Australian library holdings and loans, and search or browse archives of individual readers based on their diaries and letters.'

Source: About Australian Common Reader website

1 y separately published work icon Australian Cultural History Antipodean Modern no. 25 Neil Levy , Tim Dolin (editor), 2006 Z1564284 2006 periodical issue
2 1 First Steps toward a History of the Mid-Victorian Novel in Colonial Australia Tim Dolin , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 22 no. 3 2006; (p. 273-293)

— Appears in: Global Dickens 2012; (p. 9-29)
The author's approach is 'to use quantitative reading data to analyse the circulation of Victorian written culture in a range of Australian colonial contexts, and to construct from that analysis locally situated re-readings of well-known and lesser-known novels' (275). By looking at library records and establishing borrowing patterns, Dolin examines reading culture in colonial South Australia, using as an example the reception and impact of Dickens's Great Expectations.
1 The Secret Reading Life of Us Tim Dolin , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Readers, Writers, Publishers : Essays and Poems 2004; (p. 115-133)
Dolin examines the reading habits of Australians in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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