Pinocchio's Progeny: Puppets, Marionettes, Automatons, and Robots in Modernist and Avant-Garde Drama

by Harold B. Segal and Harold B. Segel

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While Carlo Collodi's internationally revered "Pinocchio" may not have been the single source of the modernist fascination with puppets and marionettes, the book's appearance on the threshold of the modernist movement heralded a new artistic interest in the making of human likenesses. And the puppets, marionettes, and other forms that figure so vividly and provocatively in modernist and avant-garde drama can, according to Harold Segel, be regarded...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0801852625

ISBN13:9780801852626

Release Date:August 1995

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:372 Pages

Weight:1.14 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Arts, Music & Photography Humor & Entertainment Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Performing Arts Theater

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