Author: Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226774481
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
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'The Pinocchio Effect' draws on a broad array of sources to trace the making of a modern national identity in Italy. The author explores all the ways that identity was constructed through newly formed attachments, voluntary and otherwise, to the nation.
Author: Elizabeth Janson
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004416048
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 217
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Elizabeth Janson explores how educational leaders can engage in decolonial praxis against the imaginicide and the Pinocchio Effect, where students are made real through legitimization of knowledge, and others are disposable deviants due to their inability to swallow standardized knowledge.
Author: Carlo Collodi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781603033930
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Pinocchio, The Tale of a Puppet follows the adventures of a talking wooden puppet whose nose grew longer whenever he told a lie and who wanted more than anything else to become a real boy.As carpenter Master Antonio begins to carve a block of pinewood into a leg for his table the log shouts out, "Don't strike me too hard!" Frightened by the talking log, Master Cherry does not know what to do until his neighbor Geppetto drops by looking for a piece of wood to build a marionette. Antonio gives the block to Geppetto. And thus begins the life of Pinocchio, the puppet that turns into a boy.Pinocchio, The Tale of a Puppet is a novel for children by Carlo Collodi is about the mischievous adventures of Pinocchio, an animated marionette, and his poor father and woodcarver Geppetto. It is considered a classic of children's literature and has spawned many derivative works of art. But this is not the story we've seen in film but the original version full of harrowing adventures faced by Pinnocchio. It includes 40 illustrations.
Author: Patricia Elizabeth Stewart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education and state
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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Author: Arthur I. Miller
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262539624
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 429
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An authority on creativity introduces us to AI-powered computers that are creating art, literature, and music that may well surpass the creations of humans. Today's computers are composing music that sounds “more Bach than Bach,” turning photographs into paintings in the style of Van Gogh's Starry Night, and even writing screenplays. But are computers truly creative—or are they merely tools to be used by musicians, artists, and writers? In this book, Arthur I. Miller takes us on a tour of creativity in the age of machines. Miller, an authority on creativity, identifies the key factors essential to the creative process, from “the need for introspection” to “the ability to discover the key problem.” He talks to people on the cutting edge of artificial intelligence, encountering computers that mimic the brain and machines that have defeated champions in chess, Jeopardy!, and Go. In the central part of the book, Miller explores the riches of computer-created art, introducing us to artists and computer scientists who have, among much else, unleashed an artificial neural network to create a nightmarish, multi-eyed dog-cat; taught AI to imagine; developed a robot that paints; created algorithms for poetry; and produced the world's first computer-composed musical, Beyond the Fence, staged by Android Lloyd Webber and friends. But, Miller writes, in order to be truly creative, machines will need to step into the world. He probes the nature of consciousness and speaks to researchers trying to develop emotions and consciousness in computers. Miller argues that computers can already be as creative as humans—and someday will surpass us. But this is not a dystopian account; Miller celebrates the creative possibilities of artificial intelligence in art, music, and literature.
Author: Samuel R. Delany
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486809099
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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This Stonewall Book Award-winning novel traces the life and unrealized dreams of a homosexual African-American poet. Beautifully written in reverse chronological order, the story offers moving meditations on loneliness and sexual repression.
Author: Carlo Collodi
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590172892
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Though one of the best-known books in the world, Pinocchio at the same time remains unknown—linked in many minds to the Walt Disney movie that bears little relation to Carlo Collodi’s splendid original. That story is of course about a puppet who, after many trials, succeeds in becoming a “real boy.” Yet it is hardly a sentimental or morally improving tale. To the contrary, Pinocchio is one of the great subversives of the written page, a madcap genius hurtled along at the pleasure and mercy of his desires, a renegade who in many ways resembles his near contemporary Huck Finn. Pinocchio the novel, no less than Pinocchio the character, is one of the great inventions of modern literature. A sublime anomaly, the book merges the traditions of the picaresque, of street theater, and of folk and fairy tales into a work that is at once adventure, satire, and a powerful enchantment that anticipates surrealism and magical realism. Thronged with memorable characters and composed with the fluid but inevitable logic of a dream, Pinocchio is an endlessly fascinating work that is essential equipment for life.
Author: Libby Hamilton
Publisher: Classic Pop-up Sound Books
ISBN: 9781848773851
Category : Marionettes
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Children's favourite, the much-loved naughty puppet Pinocchio, comes to life again in this fun-packed retelling. Crafted by the toy maker Geppetto, Pinocchio learns that to be a real little boy you must be honest, generous and brave. With magical sounds to accompany the story, readers join Pinocchio (and the Blue Fairy who watches over him) as he goes to a puppet show, a circus and even finds himself swallowed by a whale!
Author: Greg Egan
Publisher: Gollancz
ISBN: 0575105461
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205
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As a young boy, Prabir Suresh lives with his parents and sister on an otherwise uninhabited island in a remote part of the Indonesian peninsula. Prabir names it Teranesia, populating it with imaginary creatures even stranger than the evolutionarily puzzling butterflies that his parents are studying. Civil war strikes, orphaning Prabir and his sister. Eighteen years later, rumours of bizarre new species of plants and animals being discovered in the peninsula that was their childhood home draw Prabir's sister back to the island - Prabir cannot bear for her to have gone out alone and he follows, persuading a pharmaceutical researcher to take him along as a guide.
Author: Bruno Latour
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1780990030
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 155
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The Prince and the Wolf contains the transcript of a debate which took place on 5th February 2008 at the London School of Economics (LSE) between the prominent French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher Bruno Latour and the Cairo-based American philosopher Graham Harman.
