| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 363 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
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: Stage Scripts -- Autobiography as Mockery, or Barry Humphries in Mock Turtle -- Humphries' ficcionnes: Scriptor or Descriptor? -- Humphries' Occasional Texts, or One Good Man's Miscellany |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-353) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Humphries, Barry -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Humphries, Barry, 1934- fast |
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Humphries, Barry. swd |
| Subject |
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Acting & Auditioning.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780773571624 |
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0773571620 |
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