Serious frolic : essays on Australian humour / edited by Fran De Groen and Peter Kirkpatrick
- Bib ID:
- 4401442
- Format:
- Book
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2009
- xxviii, 296 p. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9780702236884
- Summary:
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"What do Australians find funny? Is there a distinctive style of Australian humour, or is there more than one? What are the ingredients? What social and cultural functions do they perform?"--Provided by publisher.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: Classic Australian humour
- Ken Stewart 3
- 'The Loaded Dog': A celebration
- Philip Butterss 16
- "Compounded of incompatibles': The songs ofa Sentimental Bloke
- and The moods of Ginger Mick
- Humour and culture
- Jessica Milner Davis 31
- 'Aussie' humour and laughter: Joking as an acculturating ritual
- John McLaren 48
- 'This is serious': From the backblocks to the city
- Peter Pierce 60
- Of the names of horses
- Fran De Groen 69
- Risus sardonicus
- Lillian Holt 81
- Aboriginal humour: A conversational corroboree
- Humour in Australian fiction
- Peter Kirkpatrick 97
- 'We are but dust, add water and we are mud': The comic language
- of Here' luck
- Michael Sharkey 110
- Why men leave home: The flight of the suburban male in some
- popular Australian fiction 1910-1950
- Bruce Bennett 124
- Seriously funny: Happy returns of humour in Australian short fiction
- Parody
- Elizabeth Webby 143
- 'To write or not to write': Some Australian literary parodies
- 1820-1850
- Virginia Blain 157
- 'Our serious frolic': Ern Malley's postwar trip to England
- Michael Wilding 171
- Writing humour
- Performance
- Ann Pender 189
- 'The rude rudiments of satire': Barry Humphries' humour
- John McCallum 202
- Comedy and constraint: Lenny Bruce, Bernard Manning, Pauline
- Pantsdown and Bill Hicks
- Susan Lever 221
- 'Lookatmoiye! Lookatmoiye!': Australian situation comedy
- and beyond.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. [275]-284.
- Subject:
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- Australian wit and humor
- Literature and stories - Poetry
- Entertainment - Television
- Gender relations - Marriage
- Sport - Horse racing
- Psychology - Emotions
- Defence - World War II
- Literature and stories - Fiction
- Law enforcement - Prisons - Prisoners
- Race relations - Racism - Stereotyping
- Social behaviour
- Indigenous knowledge - World view
- Australia
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- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 2009
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