| Description |
1 online resource (206 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Prologue: the madness of puppets -- A conversation in Rome -- Bad manners -- The scale of the puppet -- The fate of hands -- Wooden acting -- Fables for a puppet theater -- Destroying the puppet show -- Hunger -- The blackened puppet -- Shadows -- A test of innocence -- Coda: everything else |
| Summary |
The puppet creates delight and fear. It may evoke the innocent play of childhood, or become a tool of ritual magic, able to negotiate with ghosts and gods. Puppets can be creepy things, secretive, inanimate while also full of spirit, alive with gesture and voice. In this eloquent book, Kenneth Gross contemplates the fascination of these unsettling objects & mdash;objects that are also actors and images of life. The poetry of the puppet is central here, whether in its blunt grotesquery or symbolic simplicity, and always in its talent for metamorphosis. On a meditative journey to seek the idiosyncra |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Puppets in literature.
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Puppet theater -- History and criticism
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CRAFTS & HOBBIES -- Puppets & Puppetry.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Puppets & Puppetry.
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Puppet theater
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Puppets in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010052565 |
| ISBN |
9780226309606 |
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0226309606 |
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1283250292 |
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9781283250290 |
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9786613250292 |
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6613250295 |
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