Dumbstruck

Dumbstruck

by Connor, Steven

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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 i…

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  • Full title :Dumbstruck.

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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).

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2000.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (465 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780198184331, 0198184336
  • oclc:on1027141373
  • LC Classification:GV1557.C66 2000
  • Dewey Decimal:793.8909

Subjects

Sociological aspects

Writers

Connor, Steven

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