Hearing The Voice Podcasts

This podcast features a presentation by Professor Patricia Waugh on 'Voices Becoming Characters: Insights from the Experimental Novel'. It was recorded on Thursday 7 May 2015 as part of the Hearing the Voice Research Seminar series. Abstract: From Defoe onwards, novelists have been fascinated by hearing the voice and, indeed, many novelists have written autobiographically about their own voice hearing experiences. Foregrounding the functional role and the nature of voice in narrative fiction, Patricia Waugh explores how experiment with voice, from Daniel Defoe to David Foster Wallace, has been a major source of the novel’s capacity to generate new insights into human existential and socio-cognitive capacities.