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UNINA9910777742003321 |
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St. Pierre Paul Matthew |
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Titolo |
A portrait of the artist as Australian [[electronic resource] ] : l'oeuvre bizarre de Barry Humphries / / Paul Matthew St. Pierre |
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Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-86162-X |
9786612861628 |
0-7735-7162-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (392 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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National characteristics, Australian, in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-353) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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whose success is rooted in music halls, Dadaism, and his identity as an Australian. |
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