| Description |
xii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
PAJ books |
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PAJ books.
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| Contents |
1. From Cervantes to Symbolism. 1. Puppets and Their Kin in Fiction and Drama. 2. The Puppet in Turn-of-the-Century Literature, Drama, and Theater -- 2. Modernist and Avant-Garde Readings. 3. Apres Maeterlinck. From Bouchor's Mysteries to Ghelderode's, with Visits en Route with Jarry, Apollinaire, Cocteau, Rostand, and Claudel. 4. Puppets, Marionettes, and the Debunking of Traditionalism and National Myths in Spanish Modernist Drama. 5. Puppetry and Cabaret in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna / Schnitzler and Kokoschka. 6. Poland and Prussia as Puppet Shows / Stanislaw Wyspianski and Gerhart Hauptmann. 7. When Mr. Sleeman Comes. Hjalmar Bergman's Marionettes and Shadows. 8. Petrushka to Revolution. Russian Variations. 9. Italian Futurism, Teatro Grottesco, and the World of Artificial Man. 10. From Puppet to Robot / The Brothers Capek. 11. Man as Machine. Methusalem to Bauhaus |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-360) and index |
| Subject |
Puppet theater.
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Experimental drama -- History and criticism.
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Marionettes in literature.
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Robots in literature.
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Modernism (Literature)
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| LC no. |
95075204 |
| ISBN |
0801850312 |
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0801852625 paperback |
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