Larrikins : a History.
Australia has often been said to possess a "larrikin streak," from the Stiffy and Mo cartoons and the true-blue Crocodile Hunter to the characters in the silent film The Sentimental Bloke. When it first emerged around 1870, larrikin was a term of abuse, used to describe teenage, working-cl...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Queensland Press,
2012.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Author biography; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Figure 1.; Figure 2.; Figure 3.; Introduction: The true blue Aussie larrikin; Chapter One: The leary bloke; Chapter Two: The brazen girl; Chapter Three: The pull of the push; Chapter Four: The Mount Rennie outrage; Chapter Five: Larrikin style; Chapter Six: All the world's a football field; Chapter Seven: The demise of the flash larrikin; Afterword: Larrikinism since 1930; Acknowledgments; Endnotes; Index.