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  • Author:agent Dorothy Hewett http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/hewett-dorothy
Issue Details: First known date: 1999... 1999 Neap Tide
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A woman running from her past rents a lonely cottage haunted by drowned lovers and the presence of the sea. Here - amongst the local writers and conservationists, the Aborigines, fishermen, ferals and drifters - Jessica Sorensen almost loses her life and then remakes it. In this haunted and haunting story, Dorothy Hewett has written a novel about love and loss and the endless drift of the tides. (Source: Trove)

Notes

  • The neap tide: a low tide at the first and third quarter of the moon.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 1999 .
      Extent: 278p.
      ISBN: 0140288430
Alternative title: שפל
Alternative title: Shefel
Language: Hebrew

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  • Also sound recording.

Works about this Work

Something Momentous Laurie Clancy , single work review
— Review of Neap Tide Dorothy Hewett , 1999 single work novel
The Australian Reifungsroman : Reading Women’s Ageing in Kate Grenville’s The Idea of Perfection and Dorothy Hewett’s Neap Tide Yuanhang Liu , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Journal of Commonwealth Literature , September vol. 58 no. 3 2023; (p. 677-691)

'Women’s ageing processes raise important questions about the relationship between the body, the self, and society, but this topic has been widely ignored in Australian literature. The Australian Reifungsroman, through nuanced articulations of ageing women’s experiences of being doubly othered, shows itself to be a critical discourse that helps to break the cultural silence accorded to ageing women. This article aims to acknowledge the existence of the Reifungsroman in Australian literature while addressing questions around how this genre is employed in the Australian context, in order to actively engage with the topic of women’s ageing. Drawing on literary gerontology, this article examines Australian novelist Kate Grenville’s The Idea of Perfection (2000) and Dorothy Hewett’s Neap Tide (1999) from a feminist perspective, focusing on the literary representations of ageing women offered by these novels. In so doing, this article contends that the Australian Reifungsroman unsettles the dominant ideas about women’s ageing as negative and declining. Indeed, narratives such as these help to articulate ageing women’s agency by reconstructing new images of older womanhood.' (Publication abstract)

y separately published work icon The Mabo Turn in Australian Fiction Geoff Rodoreda , Oxford : Peter Lang , 2017 13852561 2017 multi chapter work criticism

'This is the first in-depth, broad-based study of the impact of the Australian High Court’s landmark Mabo decision of 1992 on Australian fiction. More than any other event in Australia’s legal, political and cultural history, the Mabo judgement – which recognised indigenous Australians’ customary native title to land – challenged previous ways of thinking about land and space, settlement and belonging, race and relationships, and nation and history, both historically and contemporaneously. While Mabo’s impact on history, law, politics and film has been the focus of scholarly attention, the study of its influence on literature has been sporadic and largely limited to examinations of non-Aboriginal novels.

'Now, a quarter of a century after Mabo, this book takes a closer look at nineteen contemporary novels – including works by David Malouf, Alex Miller, Kate Grenville, Thea Astley, Tim Winton, Michelle de Kretser, Richard Flanagan, Alexis Wright and Kim Scott – in order to define and describe Australia’s literary imaginary as it reflects and articulates post-Mabo discourse today. Indeed, literature’s substantial engagement with Mabo’s cultural legacy – the acknowledgement of indigenous people’s presence in the land, in history, and in public affairs, as opposed to their absence – demands a re-writing of literary history to account for a “Mabo turn” in Australian fiction. ' (Publication summary)

Place and Property in Post-Mabo Fiction by Dorothy Hewett, Alex Miller and Andrew McGahan Kieran Dolin , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 14 no. 3 2014;
'Drawing on concepts developed in legal geography and critical histories of property law, this paper considers the connection between legal and affective relations to place in white Australian fiction in the wake of the Mabo decision. In what ways does land ownership, and the rights accorded by property, influence attitudes to and understandings of place? To what extent might the Anglo-Australian law of property be inflected by Indigenous understandings of land and law? Three novels published in the years following the Wik Peoples case are examined, Dorothy Hewett's Neap Tide, Alex Miller's Journey to the Stone Country and Andrew McGahan's The White Earth, due to their overt engagement with post-Mabo law and politics. Through a study of fictional techniques, especially representations of race, space and law, the paper explores whether these novels contribute to the formation of a new understanding of land and justice in contemporary Australia.' (Publication abstract)
y separately published work icon The Paradoxical Taboo : White Female Characters and Interracial Relationships in Australian Fiction Carolyn Hughes , Brisbane : 2004 Z1180791 2004 single work thesis The thesis looks at the way white female characters and interracial relationships are represented in Australian fiction by white Australian writers.
A Rhythm of Opposites Nicole Moore , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 157 1999; (p. 95-96)

— Review of Neap Tide Dorothy Hewett , 1999 single work novel
Melancholy in the Bush David Matthews , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 27-28 November 1999; (p. 15)

— Review of Neap Tide Dorothy Hewett , 1999 single work novel
Sex and Other Catastrophes Judith White , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin (The Book Bulletin) , 23 November vol. 117 no. 6201 1999; (p. 8-9)

— Review of Neap Tide Dorothy Hewett , 1999 single work novel ; Modern Men Don't Shift Fridges Meg Stewart , 1999 single work novel ; The Rose Grower Michelle De Kretser , 1999 single work novel ; Pieces of a Girl Charlotte Wood , 1999 single work novel ; Miles Walker, You're Dead Linda Jaivin , 1999 single work novel ; Innocents Cathy Coote , 1999 single work novel
Something Momentous Laurie Clancy , single work review
— Review of Neap Tide Dorothy Hewett , 1999 single work novel
Paperbacks Debra Adelaide , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 1 January 2000; (p. 8)

— Review of Neap Tide Dorothy Hewett , 1999 single work novel ; Collected Stories Lily Brett , 1999 selected work short story
y separately published work icon Margaret Throsby in Conversation With Dorothy Hewett Margaret Throsby (interviewer), Sydney : ABC Radio Tapes , 1999 Z1005443 1999 single work interview Margaret Throsby talks to Dorothy Hewett on the occasion of the publication of her new novel, Neap Tide. Hewett is perhaps best known as a playwright, but thinks of herself 'first and foremost' as a poet. She speaks of her childhood on an isolated property in Western Australia, and how her poetry is full of 'remembered childhood'. She discusses her membership of the Communist Party, which lasted 22 years.
y separately published work icon The Paradoxical Taboo : White Female Characters and Interracial Relationships in Australian Fiction Carolyn Hughes , Brisbane : 2004 Z1180791 2004 single work thesis The thesis looks at the way white female characters and interracial relationships are represented in Australian fiction by white Australian writers.
Fast Mind Slow Body Jane Sullivan , 2000 single work biography
— Appears in: The Age , 29 January 2000; (p. 7)
'The Private is Political' : Women's Writing and Political fiction Bronwyn Cran , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 162 2001; (p. 35-40)
Dorothy Hewett's Faith in Doubt Carmel MacDonald-Grahame , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 20 no. 1 2001; (p. 49-61)
Uses feminist theories and concepts of the feminine sublime to investigate Dorothy Hewett's writing (particularly her poetry) and her development as a writer, concentrating on the attitudes expressed in her declarations of doubt about self and writing.
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