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Australian fiction --- National characteristics, Australian, in literature. --- Australian fiction

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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.

Humphries, Barry --- Criticism and interpretation. --- National characteristics, Australian, in literature. --- Humphries, Barry, --- Edna, --- Everage, Edna, --- Humphries, John Barry, --- McKenzie, Barry, --- Patterson, Les,

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Australia is the planet's sole island continent. This book argues that the uniqueness of this geography has shaped Australian history and culture, including its literature. Further, it shows how the fluctuating definition of the island continent throws new light on the relationship between islands and continents in the mapping of modernity. The book links the historical and geographical conditions of islands with their potent role in the imaginaries of European colonisation. It prises apart the tangled web of geography, fantasy, desire and writing that has framed the Western understanding of islands, both their real and material conditions and their symbolic power, from antiquity into globalised modernity. The book also traces how this spatial imaginary has shaped the modern 'man' who is imagined as being the island's mirror. The inter-relationship of the island fantasy, colonial expansion, and the literary construction of place and history, created a new 'man': the dislocated and alienated subject of post-colonial modernity.

Australian literature --- Islands in literature. --- Geography in literature. --- Place (Philosophy) in literature. --- National characteristics, Australian, in literature. --- Topography in literature --- History and criticism.

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Sociology of literature --- English literature --- Drama --- anno 1900-1999 --- Australia --- Australian drama --- Literature and society --- National characteristics, Australian, in literature. --- Gender identity in literature. --- Nationalism in literature. --- Sex role in literature. --- Race in literature. --- Théâtre australien --- Identité sexuelle dans la littérature --- Nationalisme dans la littérature --- Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature --- Race dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- History --- Histoire et critique --- Théâtre australien --- Identité sexuelle dans la littérature --- Nationalisme dans la littérature --- Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature --- Race dans la littérature