Puppet An Essay on Uncanny Life

Name: Puppet An Essay on Uncanny Life
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ISBN: 9780226005508

ISBN-10: 022600550X

ISBN-13: 9780226005508

Edition: 2012

Authors: Kenneth Gross

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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—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 idiosyncratic shapes of puppets on stage,Gross looks at the anarchic Punch and Judy show, the sacred shadow theater…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/3/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Kenneth Gross is professor of English at the University of Rochester. He is the author of five books, including Shakespeare's Noise and Shylock is Shakespeare, also published by the University of Chicago Press.



List Of Illustrations


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


Notes


Readings


Acknowledgments


Photo Credits


Index