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- catalog abstract ""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 kinds of question 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 the 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11762399.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog 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 kinds of question which impel Steven Connor's wide-ranging, restlessly inquisitive history of ventriloquism and the disembodied voice.".
- catalog description "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 the 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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [418]-435) and index.".
- catalog description "It is also a series of virtuoso philosophical and psychological reflections on the problems and astonishments, the raptures and absurdities of the unhoused voice."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "PART I: POWERS: What I say goes -- PART II: PROPHECIES: Earth, breath, frenzy: the Delphic Oracle -- Origen, Eustathius, and the Witch of Endor -- PART III: POSSESSIONS: Hoc est corpus -- The exorcism of John Darrell -- O, that 'Oh' is the Devill: Glover and Harsnett -- PART IV: PRODIGIES: Miracles and mutilations -- Speaking parts: Diderot and Les Bijoux indiscrets -- The Abbe and the Ventriloque -- The dictates of phrenzy: Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland -- PART V: POLYPHONICS: Ubiquitarical -- At home and abroad: Alexandre and Mr. Matthews -- Phenomena in the philosophy of sound: Mr. Love -- Writing the voice -- PART VI: PROSTHETICS: Vocal reinforcement -- Talking heads, automation ears -- A gramophone in every grave -- PART VII: NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT: No time life the present.".
- catalog extent "viii, 449 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Dumbstruck.".
- catalog identifier "0198184336 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Dumbstruck.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Dumbstruck.".
- catalog subject "793.8/9 21".
- catalog subject "GV1557 .C66 2000".
- catalog subject "Ventriloquism History.".
- catalog subject "Ventriloquism Social aspects.".
- catalog tableOfContents "PART I: POWERS: What I say goes -- PART II: PROPHECIES: Earth, breath, frenzy: the Delphic Oracle -- Origen, Eustathius, and the Witch of Endor -- PART III: POSSESSIONS: Hoc est corpus -- The exorcism of John Darrell -- O, that 'Oh' is the Devill: Glover and Harsnett -- PART IV: PRODIGIES: Miracles and mutilations -- Speaking parts: Diderot and Les Bijoux indiscrets -- The Abbe and the Ventriloque -- The dictates of phrenzy: Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland -- PART V: POLYPHONICS: Ubiquitarical -- At home and abroad: Alexandre and Mr. Matthews -- Phenomena in the philosophy of sound: Mr. Love -- Writing the voice -- PART VI: PROSTHETICS: Vocal reinforcement -- Talking heads, automation ears -- A gramophone in every grave -- PART VII: NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT: No time life the present.".
- catalog title "Dumbstruck : a cultural history of ventriloquism / Steven Connor.".
- catalog type "text".