03557nam 2200661 a 450 991081643860332120240416191055.01-282-86162-X97866128616280-7735-7162-010.1515/9780773571624(CKB)1000000000752762(OCoLC)144078287(CaPaEBR)ebrary10121236(SSID)ssj0000282998(PQKBManifestationID)11219533(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000282998(PQKBWorkID)10336433(PQKB)10617341(CaPaEBR)400150(CaBNvSL)gtp00521430(Au-PeEL)EBL3330705(CaPaEBR)ebr10132888(CaONFJC)MIL286162(OCoLC)929120910(DE-B1597)657315(DE-B1597)9780773571624(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/22wtjz(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/1/400150(MiAaPQ)EBC3330705(MiAaPQ)EBC3243775(EXLCZ)99100000000075276220050718d2004 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrA portrait of the artist as Australian l'oeuvre bizarre de Barry Humphries /Paul Matthew St. Pierre1st ed.Montreal ;Ithaca McGill-Queen's University Pressc20041 online resource (392 p.)Includes index.0-7735-2644-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-353) and index.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 -- IndexA 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.National characteristics, Australian, in literatureNational characteristics, Australian, in literature.828/.91409St. Pierre Paul Matthew1625987MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816438603321A portrait of the artist as Australian4078278UNINA