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Dumbstruck - A Cultural History of Ventriloquism
Author | : Steven Connor |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 2000-10-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191541842 |
Why can none of us hear our own recorded voice without wincing? Why is the telephone still full of such spookiness and erotic possibility? Why does the metaphor of ventriloquism, the art of 'seeming to speak where one is not', speak so resonantly to our contemporary technological condition? These are the kind of questions which impel Steven Connor's wide-ranging, restlessly inquisitive history of ventriloquism and the disembodied voice. He tracks his subject from its first recorded beginnings in ancient Israel and Greece, through the fulminations of early Christian writers against the unholy (and, they believed, obscenely produced) practices of pagan divination, the aberrations of the voice in mysticism, witchcraft and possession, and the strange obsession with the vagrant figure of the ventriloquist, newly conceived as male rather than female, during the Enlightenment. He retrieves the stories of some of the most popular and versatile ventriloquists and polyphonists of the nineteenth century, and investigates the survival of ventriloquial delusions and desires in spiritualism and the 'vocalic uncanny' of technologies like telephone, radio, film, and internet. Learned but lucid, brimming with anecdote and insight, this is much more than an archaeology of one of the most regularly derided but tenaciously enduring of popular arts. It is also a series of virtuoso philosophical and psychological reflections on the problems and astonishments, the raptures and absurdities of the unhoused voice.
Bibliography of Stuttering
Author | : Charles R. Elliott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1951 |
Genre | : Stuttering |
ISBN | : |
The British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books, 1881-1900
Author | : British Museum. Department of Printed Books |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 742 |
Release | : 1946 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : |
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author | : British Museum. Department of Printed Books |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 742 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : English imprints |
ISBN | : |