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