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A portrait of the artist as Australian : l'oeuvre bizarre de Barry Humphries / Paul Matthew St. Pierre.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- St. Pierre, Paul Matthew.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Humphries, Barry--Criticism and interpretation.
- Humphries, Barry.
- National characteristics, Australian, in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (392 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A Portrait of the Artist as Australian offers the first critical assessment of Barry Humphries' entire career - as a daring postmodern deconstructionist on stage, film, and television, with sixty-seven stage shows, twenty-four film and thirty-four video appearances, thirty-four television series and seventy-one television appearances, and seventy-two audio recordings, but especially what he calls his "second career" as author of twenty-nine books. With an oeuvre that includes novels, biographies, autobiographies, editions, compilations, comic books, poetry, dramatic monologues, sketches, film scripts, and several unclassified works, Humphries is a literary and dramatic artist of considerable significance. Arguing that Humphries is one of Australia's greatest writers, Paul Matthew St Pierre reveals a multi-faceted artist whose success is rooted in music halls, Dadaism, and his identity as an Australian.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Illustrations
- Kid on the Halls: Barry Humphries Speaks
- It All Begins with Bizarre: Barry Humphries Makes Tidy Copy
- Humphries as Poet, Poet Taster, Lyricist, and Comic Singer
- Dressing Up Discourse, Dressing Down the Audience: Humphries’ Stage Scripts
- Autobiography as Mockery, or Barry Humphries in Mock Turtle
- Barry Humphries: Scriptor or Descriptor? His ficcionnes
- Humphries’ Occasional Texts, or One Good Man’s Miscellany
- Appendices
- Addendum
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-353) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-86162-X
- 9786612861628
- 0-7735-7162-0
- OCLC:
- 144078287
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