{"product_id":"puppet-kenneth-gross-9780226309583","title":"Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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\u003cb\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003esecretive, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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, \u003ci\u003ePuppet\u003c\/i\u003e evokes the startling power of puppets as mirrors of the uncanny in life and art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kenneth Gross\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226309584\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226309583\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.80w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/04\/2011 pg. 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/11\/2011 pg. 42","brand":"Kenneth Gross","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086402367743,"sku":"9780226309583","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_486e5276-de9a-41f8-b256-4b56da716d40.jpg?v=1769094477","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/puppet-kenneth-gross-9780226309583","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}