Sounding Postmodernity: Narrative Voices in the Radio Adaptation of Alasdair Gray’s Lanark

The relationship between perceived narrative voice, the real author's voice and one's own inner speech when reading silently (Zymner) is another area which still holds several lacunae for further (empirical) research. [...]if one moves beyond fictional texts to explore voices in audio-visu...

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Published in:	Partial answers 2017, Vol.15 (1), p.167-188
Main Author:	Mildorf, Jarmila
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	1900-1999 2014 a Life in Four Books Audiences Audio adaptations Authorial voice Authors BBC Radio 4 Cinema, Broadcasting, Interactive Media dramatic arts English Literature Gray, Alasdair History and criticism Inner speech Intonation Lanark Language Listening Narration (Rhetoric) Narrative Voice Narratives novel Novels Postmodernism Prosody Radio radio adaptation Radio Adaptations Radio plays, English Radio, Television, Interactive Media Radios Scottish literature Semiotics Silent reading Sound Structuralism Theater Twentieth Century Writers
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Summary:	The relationship between perceived narrative voice, the real author's voice and one's own inner speech when reading silently (Zymner) is another area which still holds several lacunae for further (empirical) research. [...]if one moves beyond fictional texts to explore voices in audio-visual and auditory media, one must pay particular attention to narrators' and characters' actualized voice qualities - including timbre, intonation, prosody, as well the voices' possible electroacoustic manipulation. [...]the radio play simplifies the postmodern playfulness of the novel while creating its own playfulness by using second-person narration and by having Alasdair Gray speak the part of the author in the play.
ISSN:	1565-3668 1936-9247 1936-9247