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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778921103321

Titolo

Pinocchio, puppets and modernity : the mechanical body / / edited by Katia Pizzi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-62049-4

1-283-46208-7

9786613462084

1-136-62050-8

0-203-67978-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Collana

Children's literature and culture

Altri autori (Persone)

PizziKatia

Disciplina

809/.93356

Soggetti

Civilization, Modern, in literature

Literature and technology - History - 19th century

Literature and technology - History - 20th century

Mechanization in literature

Pinocchio (Fictitious character)

Puppets in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Pinocchio, puppets and modernity : the mechanical body; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgements; Bibliographical Note; Note on Translations; Introduction; Chapter 1 : Carlo Collodi and the Rhythmical Body: Between Giuseppe Mazzini and George Sand; Chapter 2 : Puppets on a String: The Unnatural History of Human Reproduction; Chapter 3 : Workshops of Creation, Filthy and Not: Collodi's Pinocchio and Shelley's Frankenstein; Chapter 4 : The Manufacture of a Modern Puppet Type: The Anatomy of Alfred Jarry's Monsieur Ubu and its Signifi cance

Chapter 5 Man is Non-Man: Mannequins, Puppets and Marionettes in the Theatre of Dario FoChapter 6 : Unpainting Collodi's Fireplace; Chapter 7 : Pinocchio and the Mechanical Body: Luciano Folgore's Papers at the Getty Research Institute Library; Chapter 8 : The Myth of Pinocchio: Metamorphosis of a Puppet from Collodi's Pages to the



Screen; Chapter 9 : The Watchful Mirror: Pinocchio's Adventures Re-created by Roberto Benigni; Chapter 10 : Beyond the Mechanical Body: Digital Pinocchio; List of Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This study assesses the significance of Pinocchio in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in addition to his status as the creature of a nineteenth century traversed by a cultural enthusiasm for dummies, puppets, and marionettes. This collection identifies him as a figure characterized by a 'fluid identity,' informed with transition, difference, joie de vivre, otherness, displacement, and metamorphosis, making Pinocchio a truly modern, indeed postmodern and posthuman, cultural icon. Pinocchio, Puppets and Modernity explores this crucial and as yet little visited field, reassess