Author: Robert KiddPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elocution
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
New Elocution and Voice Culture
Author: Robert KiddPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elocution
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Orthophony: Or, Vocal Culture in Elocution
Author: James Edward MurdochPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elocution
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Werner's Voice Magazine
Author: Edgar S. WernerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elocution
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
The American Catalogue
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
American national trade bibliography.
Dumbstruck - A Cultural History of Ventriloquism
Author: Steven ConnorPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191541842
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
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.
Werner's Voice Magazine
Author: Colonial Voices
Author: Joy DamousiPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521516315
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Innovative study of the role of language in the 'civilising' project of the British Empire in colonial Australia.
The Voice
Author: List of Library Books Recommended by the State Board of Education of the State of California, 1892
Author: California. State Board of EducationPublisher:
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Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
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