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- catalog abstract ""Scott Cutler Shershow explores the historical relationship between puppet theater and the human stage from the Renaissance to the present. Focusing on the ways in which various modes of bourgeois discourse have used the puppet as metaphor, paradigm of theatrical performance, and symbol of subordination, he maintains that "elite" and "popular" forms of culture are inextricably linked." "Shershow examines an astonishing range of texts and performers - from Ben Jonson to Jim Henson, from Plato to Punch and Judy, from Enlightenment essays to works by the modernist avant-garde. He shows that the many forms of puppet theater which have flourished on the margins of social life in the carnival, fairground, and marketplace - have been both disparaged and celebrated by authors attempting to demonstrate their own legitimate or literary status. Shershow thus suggests that so-called high and low practices thoroughly interpenetrate one another, forcing us to question whether rival social groups ever truly have their own separate "cultures.""--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b7556736.
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description ""Scott Cutler Shershow explores the historical relationship between puppet theater and the human stage from the Renaissance to the present. Focusing on the ways in which various modes of bourgeois discourse have used the puppet as metaphor, paradigm of theatrical performance, and symbol of subordination, he maintains that "elite" and "popular" forms of culture are inextricably linked." "Shershow examines an astonishing range of texts and performers - from Ben Jonson to Jim Henson, from Plato to Punch and Judy, from Enlightenment essays to works by the modernist avant-garde. He shows that the many forms of puppet theater which have flourished on the margins of social life in the carnival, fairground, and marketplace - have been both disparaged and celebrated by authors attempting to demonstrate their own legitimate or literary status. Shershow thus suggests that so-called high and low practices thoroughly interpenetrate one another, forcing us to question whether rival social groups ever truly have their own separate "cultures.""--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Chapter One -- Performing objects in the "theological" theatre -- "A puppet made by Gods" : Plato and the Hierarchy of Representation -- Mammets, Marmosets, and Marionettes: Iconophobia and the Embodied sign -- Chapter Two -- Authorship and Culture in early modern England -- "In despight of the players": Early modern puppetry and the "Popular" Voice -- "Puppets that speake from our mouths": Authors and objects on the early modern stage -- "The Puppets Part: Cultural Hierarchy and Social Subordination -- "The mouth of 'hem All" : The Tempest and Bartholomew Faire -- Chaper Three --The Violence of Appropriation: From the Interregnum to the Nineteenth Century -- "Managers of Human Mechanism": From "Popular" Puppetry to the "Legitimate: Stage -- "The Sacred and Politique Puppet-Play": Puritans, power and the performing object -- "Borrowed Dress" : Henry Fielding and Charlotte Charke -- Visions of Graver Puppetry": Punch and Judy and Culturd Appropriation -- Chapter Four -- Modern and Postmodern Puppets in Theory and in Practice -- "The Omnipotence of a Methodical Will": Performing Objects and the Theatrical Avante-Garde -- The Object of Significance: Vitalism, Semiotics and the Puppet -- "No Strings on Me": From Pinocchio to the Muppets.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 252 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0801430941 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ithaca : Cornell University Press,".
- catalog subject "791.5/3 20".
- catalog subject "PN1972 .S45 1995".
- catalog subject "Popular culture.".
- catalog subject "Puppet theater.".
- catalog subject "Representation (Philosophy)".
- catalog tableOfContents "Chapter One -- Performing objects in the "theological" theatre -- "A puppet made by Gods" : Plato and the Hierarchy of Representation -- Mammets, Marmosets, and Marionettes: Iconophobia and the Embodied sign -- Chapter Two -- Authorship and Culture in early modern England -- "In despight of the players": Early modern puppetry and the "Popular" Voice -- "Puppets that speake from our mouths": Authors and objects on the early modern stage -- "The Puppets Part: Cultural Hierarchy and Social Subordination -- "The mouth of 'hem All" : The Tempest and Bartholomew Faire -- Chaper Three --The Violence of Appropriation: From the Interregnum to the Nineteenth Century -- "Managers of Human Mechanism": From "Popular" Puppetry to the "Legitimate: Stage -- "The Sacred and Politique Puppet-Play": Puritans, power and the performing object -- "Borrowed Dress" : Henry Fielding and Charlotte Charke -- Visions of Graver Puppetry": Punch and Judy and Culturd Appropriation -- Chapter Four -- Modern and Postmodern Puppets in Theory and in Practice -- "The Omnipotence of a Methodical Will": Performing Objects and the Theatrical Avante-Garde -- The Object of Significance: Vitalism, Semiotics and the Puppet -- "No Strings on Me": From Pinocchio to the Muppets.".
- catalog title "Puppets and "popular" culture / Scott Cutler Shershow.".
- catalog type "text".