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  1. Puppet
    an essay on uncanny life
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    Münchner Stadtmuseum, Zentrale Bibliothek
    No inter-library loan
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780226309583; 0226309584
    RVK Categories: EC 5410
    Subjects: Puppets in literature; Puppet theater; Literatur; Figurentheater; Puppe <Motiv>
    Scope: 206 S., Ill., 23 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

  2. Puppet
    an essay on uncanny life
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780226005508; 9780226309583
    RVK Categories: EC 5410
    Edition: Paperback edition
    Subjects: Literatur; Puppe <Motiv>; <<Das>> Unheimliche; ; Figurentheater
    Scope: 206 Seiten, Illustrationen, 22 cm
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    Enthält Literaturverzeichnis auf Seite183-191

    Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke (2017)

  3. Puppet
    an essay on uncanny life
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    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... more

    Universitätsbibliothek Erfurt / Forschungsbibliothek Gotha, Universitätsbibliothek Erfurt
    HG 627 G878
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    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
    2012 A 10260
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan
    Universitätsbibliothek Hildesheim
    ANG 342 : G75
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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 of Bali, and experimental theaters in Europe and the United States, where puppets enact everything from Baroque opera and Shakespearean tragedy to Beckettian farce. Throughout, he interweaves accounts of the myriad faces of the puppet in literature—Collodi’s cruel, wooden Pinocchio, puppetlike characters in Kafka and Dickens, Rilke’s puppet-angels, the dark puppeteering of Philip Roth’s Micky Sabbath—as well as in the work of artists Joseph Cornell and Paul Klee. The puppet emerges here as a hungry creature, seducer and destroyer, demon and clown. It is a test of our experience of things, of the human and inhuman. 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.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0226309584; 9780226309583
    RVK Categories: EC 5410
    Subjects: Play in literature; Dolls in literature; Toys in literature; Puppets in literature; Puppet theater; Figurentheater
    Scope: 206 Seiten, Illustrationen, 23 cm
    Notes:

    Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke

    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.