{"product_id":"to-embody-the-marvellous-9780826501790","title":"To Embody the Marvellous","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn its exploration of puppetry and animation as the performative media of choice for mastering the art of illusion, To Embody the Marvelous engages with early modern notions of wonder in religious, artistic, and social contexts.    From jointed, wood-carved figures of Christ, saintly marionettes that performed hagiographical dramas, experimental puppets and automata in Cervantes' Don Quixote, and the mechanical sets around which playwright CalderÓn de la Barca devised secular magic shows to deconstruct superstitions, these historical and fictional artifacts reenvisioned religious, artistic, and social notions that led early modern society to critically wrestle with enchantment and disenchantment.    The use of animated performance objects in Spanish theatrical contexts during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries became one of the most effective pedagogical means to engage with civil society. Regardless of social strata, readers and spectators alike were caught up in a paradigm shift\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is an extraordinary interdisciplinarity within the work. The complexity of the detail of technical, philosophical, and metaphorical aspects described is very strong. . . . I have never read anything quite like this before.\" - Cariad Astles, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eWomen and Puppetry: Critical and Historical Investigations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStages of Animation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1 Mechanics of Reductionism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Socio-political Ticking\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePious Technologies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Lives of Shadows\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2 Matters of God\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBeyond the Altar\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTowards the Holy Puppet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHandling the Descent\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Jointed Christ Figure Reimagined\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3 Articulating Saintliness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWooden Saints\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Archeology of the \u003ci\u003eMÁquina Real\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eModern Object-Centric Sainthood\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4 Unruly Puppets\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Estrangement of Illusions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOperatizing the Puppet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDisarticulated Remediations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 5 Technologies of Wonder\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMaking Wonderlands\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEnchantment Interrupted\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eModern Re-enchantments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 6 Trapdoors to \u003ci\u003eDesengaÑo\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBarely Humans\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnimated Thresholds\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpatial Prosthetics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSecret Passageways Refurbished\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhen Statues Move\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWork cited\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Vanderbilt University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018480189783,"sku":"9780826501790","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780826501790.jpg?v=1750777053","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/to-embody-the-marvellous-9780826501790","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}