TY - BOOK AU - Gross,Kenneth TI - Puppet: an essay on uncanny life SN - 022600550X AV - PN1972 .G766 2012 U1 - 791.53 23 PY - 2012///, ©2011 CY - Chicago, London PB - The University of Chicago Press KW - Puppet theater KW - History KW - Puppets in literature KW - Performing Arts KW - eflch KW - nli KW - fast N1 - P.B; 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 N2 - "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 ER -