Question

A poet who wrote about these things after seeing some made by Lotte Pritzel developed the idea of the “thing-soul,” when these things escape their user’s mastery. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these things. In an essay framed as a dialogue, a dancer says these things are better than people because their “soul” can appear at “some point other than the center of gravity at the moment.”
ANSWER: puppets [or marionettes; or dolls; or toys]
[10m] That essay, “On the Marionette Theatre,” is by this German romanticist who wrote the play The Broken Jug and the novella Michael Koolhaas.
ANSWER: Heinrich von Kleist
[10e] After gazing intently at a puppet stage, the speaker of this poet’s fourth Duino Elegy declares “finally, a real play!” when an angel brings the puppets to life.
ANSWER: Rainer Maria Rilke
<Emmett Laurie, European Literature>

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Summary

2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo10/28/2023Y417.50100%75%0%
2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU10/28/2023Y110.00100%0%0%
2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard)10/21/2023Y120.00100%100%0%
2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite)10/21/2023Y220.00100%100%0%
2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal)10/28/2023Y220.00100%100%0%
2023 Penn Bowl (South Central)10/28/2023Y120.00100%100%0%
2023 Penn Bowl (UK)10/28/2023Y516.00100%60%0%
2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC10/28/2023Y215.00100%50%0%

Data

Waterloo HatsuneLibrary of Babel School of Continuing Studies0101020
Toronto RoflMixed-Affiliated Contingency, Off the Team & Absent: Wong, Adrian0101020
Toronto WearyToronto Joy0101020
Waterloo MikuLa Clique du Chateau001010