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Article: Voice and the Victorian Storyteller.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2007
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Voice and the Victorian Storyteller. By IVAN KREILKAMP. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2005. viii+252 pp. 48 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-521-85193-0.
'This book', writes Ivan Kreilkamp, 'questions and hopes to trouble a well-entrenched commonplace concerning the relationship of speech to writing' (p. 1). The commonplace is that the figure of the oral storyteller was' a remnant of a lost and mourned premodern past' (p. 1); Kreilkamp maintains, on the contrary, that' the much-lamented storyteller came into being as a fiction within the very medium [print culture] that is accused of having killed him off' (p. 2). Indeed,' there is little evidence that the ...