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Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life - Softcover

Gross, Kenneth

 
9780226005508: Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life
Softcover
ISBN 10: 022600550X ISBN 13: 9780226005508
Verlag: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Kenneth Gross teaches English at the University of Rochester and is the author, most recently, of Shylock Is Shakespeare, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Verlag
UNIV OF CHICAGO PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
022600550X
ISBN 13 
9780226005508
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
206
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