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

by Harold B. Segel and Professor Harold B. Segel

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: 0801850312
• ISBN13: 9780801850318
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Best Book Ever

This is an amazing book, not to be taken lightly as the cover suggests. The writing displays a certain amount of eloquence that only a brilliant writer like Harold Segal could pull off successfully. Thank you, Harold, for this essential piece of literature.

Best Book Ever

This book is amazing. It covers every aspect of avant-garde puppetry with a certain amount of eloquence only a brilliant writer could display.