Perils of a Puppet in the United States
by
Richard Wunderlich, Thomas J. Morrissey
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
In the first full-length study in English of Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, the authors show how the checkered history of the puppet illuminates social change from the pre World War One era to the present. The authors argue that most Americans know a trivialized, diluted version of the...