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Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 Serious Frolic : Essays on Australian Humour
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Contents

* Contents derived from the St Lucia, Indooroopilly - St Lucia area, Brisbane - North West, Brisbane, Queensland,:University of Queensland Press , 2009 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
'The Loaded Dog' : A Celebration, Ken A. Stewart , single work criticism (p. 3-15)
The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke and The Moods of Ginger Mick, Philip Butterss , single work criticism (p. 16-27)
'Aussie' Humour and Laughter, Jessica Milner Davis , single work criticism (p. 31-47)
'This is Serious' : From Backblocks to the City, John McLaren , single work criticism (p. 48-59)
Of the Names of Horses, Peter Pierce , single work essay (p. 60-68)
Risus Sardonicus, Frances De Groen , single work criticism (p. 69-80)
Aboriginal Humour : A Conversational Corroboree, Lillian Holt , single work biography (p. 81-94)
We Are But Dust, Add Water and We Are Mud': The Comic Language of Here's Luck, Peter Kirkpatrick , single work criticism (p. 97-109)
Why Men Leave Home : The Flight of the Suburban Male in Some Popular Australian Fiction 1910-1950, Michael Sharkey , single work criticism (p. 110-123)
Seriously Funny: Happy Returns of Humour in Australian Short Fiction, Bruce Bennett , single work criticism (p. 125-139)
'To Write or Not to Write' : Some Australian Literary Parodies 1820-1850, Elizabeth Webby , single work criticism (p. 144-156)
'Our Serious Frolic': Ern Malley's Postwar Trip to England, Virginia Blain , single work criticism (p. 157-170)
Writing Humour, Michael Wilding , single work autobiography (p. 171-185)
'The Rude Rudiments of Satire': Barry Humphries' Humour, Anne Pender , single work criticism (p. 189-201)
Comedy and Constraint: Lenny Bruce, Bernard Manning, Pauline Pantsdown and Bill Hicks, John McCallum , single work criticism (p. 202-220)
'Lookatmoiye! Lookatmoiye!' : Australian Situation Comedy and Beyond, Susan Lever , single work criticism (p. 221-228)
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