A Portrait of the Artist as Australian: L’Oeuvre bizarre de Barry HumphriesMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2004 M09 30 - 368 pages 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. |
Contents
Barry Humphries Speaks | 3 |
Barry Humphries Makes | 34 |
Humphries as Poet Poet Taster Lyricist and Comic Singer | 57 |
Autobiography as Mockery or Barry Humphries | 137 |
Scriptor or Descriptor? | 186 |
Humphries Occasional Texts or One Good Mans Miscellany | 219 |
Addendum | 293 |
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