Puppet - An Essay on Uncanny Life

Informationen zum Autor Kenneth Gross 's books include The Dream of the Moving Statue , Shakespeare's Noise , Shylock is Shakespeare , and Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life , which won the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. A former fellow of the Guggenheim and Bogliasco Foundations, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Bellagio Study Center, and the American Academy in Berlin, he teaches English at the University of Rochester. His personal website is kennethgross.me. Klappentext "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"--P. [4] of cover. Zusammenfassung 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. In this book! the author contemplates the fascination of these unsettling objects - objects that are also actors and images of life.

Product details

• Authors: Kenneth Gross, Gross Kenneth
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.10.2012
• EAN: 9780226005508
• ISBN: 978-0-226-00550-8
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: general, Puppetry, miniature & toy theatre, PERFORMING ARTS / Puppets & Puppetry, Puppetry, miniature and toy theatre