A portrait of the artist as Australian : l'oeuvre bizarre de Barry Humphries / / Paul Matthew St. Pierre
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| Autore: |
St. Pierre Paul Matthew
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| Titolo: |
A portrait of the artist as Australian : l'oeuvre bizarre de Barry Humphries / / Paul Matthew St. Pierre
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| Pubblicazione: | Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2004 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (392 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 828/.91409 |
| Soggetto topico: | National characteristics, Australian, in literature |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-353) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A portrait of the artist as Australian |
| ISBN: | 1-282-86162-X |
| 9786612861628 | |
| 0-7735-7162-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910816438603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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