The Secret Life of Puppets / / Victoria Nelson.
In one of those rare books that allows us to see the world not as we’ve never seen it before, but as we see it daily without knowing, Victoria Nelson illuminates the deep but hidden attraction the supernatural still holds for a secular mainstream culture that forced the transcendental underground an...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (368 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- One. grotto, an opening
- Two. Early adventures of the earthly gods
- Three. the puppet tractates
- Four. the strange history of the american fantastic
- Five. H. P. lovecraft and the great heresies
- Six. symmes hole, or the south polar grotto
- Seven. is this real or am i crazy?
- Eight. Two old birds and their new feathers
- Nine. The new expressionists
- Ten. The hermeticon of umbertus E.
- Eleven. The great twentiethcentury puppet upgrade
- Twelve. The door in the sky
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index