Offers the first critical assessment of Barry Humphries' entire career Details Humphries as a daring post-modern deconstructionist on stage, film, and television and as an author of twenty-nine books A Portrait of the Artist as Australian offers the first critical assessment of Barry Humphries' entire career - as a daring post-modern 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
ISBN-13
9780773526440
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96756678
Product Key Features
Book Title
A Portrait of the Artist As Australian: L'oeuvre Bizarre De Barry Humphries
Author
Paul Matthew ST Pierre
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Television
Publication Year
2004
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
700 g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Paul Matthew ST Pierre
Country/Region of Manufacture
Canada
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