Gross, Kenneth.

Puppet : an essay on uncanny life / Book Kenneth Gross. - Paperback ed. - Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012, ©2011. - 206 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"A book about reseeing what we know, or what we think we know, Puppet evokes the startling power of puppets as mirrors of the uncanny in life and art."--Page 4 of cover

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016142686 Uk


Puppet theater--History.
Puppets in literature.
Performing Arts.
Puppet theater--History.
Puppet theater.
Puppets in literature.
Puppets in literature.


History.

PN1972 / .G766 2012

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