Posture and intimacy in the author-narrator’s voice: a comparison between Dickens’s A Christmas Carol and Gaiman’s Neverwhere
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2022-08-29
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My research seeks to bridge the divide between Victorian and contemporary literary research by studying two readings, a public performance of A Christmas Carol by Dickens and the 1996 spoken word version of Neverwhere, written and narrated by Gaiman, in order to study authorship and performativity in a diachronic way. By close ‘listening’ to and close reading passages from both readings and putting the authors’ narrating techniques and styles into their own literary and cultural context, I aim to find out in what way the author-narrator’s voice in Dickens’s A Christmas Carol and Gaiman’s Neverwhere constructs an authorial posture and contributes to a feeling of intimacy and companionship between author and listener.
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