04088oam 2200781I 450 991081323990332120240516201517.01-136-62049-41-283-46208-797866134620841-136-62050-80-203-67978-410.4324/9780203679784 (CKB)2550000000096694(EBL)958512(OCoLC)798531531(SSID)ssj0000652479(PQKBManifestationID)11397814(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000652479(PQKBWorkID)10642107(PQKB)10236229(Au-PeEL)EBL958512(CaPaEBR)ebr10534965(CaONFJC)MIL346208(OCoLC)785783258(OCoLC)666242830(FINmELB)ELB139081(MiAaPQ)EBC958512(EXLCZ)99255000000009669420180706d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPinocchio, puppets and modernity the mechanical body /edited by Katia Pizzi1st ed.New York :Routledge,2012.1 online resource (247 p.)Children's literature and cultureDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-89096-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 canceChapter 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; IndexThis 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, reassessChildren's literature and culture.Civilization, Modern, in literatureLiterature and technologyHistory19th centuryLiterature and technologyHistory20th centuryMechanization in literaturePinocchio (Fictitious character)Puppets in literatureCivilization, Modern, in literature.Literature and technologyHistoryLiterature and technologyHistoryMechanization in literature.Pinocchio (Fictitious character)Puppets in literature.809/.93356Pizzi Katia1638613MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813239903321Pinocchio, puppets and modernity3996007UNINA