The Secret Life of Puppets

Victoria Nelson

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$31.00 • £24.95 • €28.00

ISBN 9780674012448

Publication Date: 11/01/2003

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368 pages

5-11/16 x 8-7/8 inches

15 halftones

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Preface
1. Grotto, An Opening
2. Early Adventures of the Earthly Gods
3. The Puppet Tractates
4. The Strange History of the American Fantastic
5. H. P. Lovecraft and the Great Heresies
6. Symmes Hole, or the South Polar Grotto
7. Is This Real or Am I Crazy?
8. Two Old Birds and Their New Feathers
9. The New Expressionists
10. The Hermeticon of Umbertus E.
11. The Great Twentieth-Century Puppet Upgrade
12. The Door in the Sky
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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2001 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies, Modern Language Association

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