Puppet : an essay on uncanny life /

"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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Hoofdauteur: Gross, Kenneth
Formaat: Boek
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012, ©2011.
Editie:Paperback ed.
Onderwerpen:
Inhoudsopgave:
  • 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.