Dumbstruck - A Cultural History of Ventriloquism
Steven (Professor of Modern Literature and Theory, School of English and Humanities, Professor of Modern Literature and Theory, School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London) Connor
Oxford University Press, 2000
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A history of ventriloquism and the disembodied voice. The author tracks his subject from its beginnings in ancient Israel and Greece, through early Christian writers against practices of pagan divination, the voice in mysticism, and witchcraft and the figure of the ventriloquist.
- ISBN-13
- 9780198184331
- ISBN-10
- 0198184336
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Year
- 2000
- Publication date
- 2000-10-26
- Pages
- 458
- Dimensions
- 166x243x32
- Weight
- 814