by Hearing the Voice | Jul 6, 2018 | Announcements, Cultural & Media Events, Events, featured
How do writers experience the voices of the characters they create? How do their readers? Do you hear different voices for different characters? Have you ever experienced those characters saying things beyond the pages of a book? Hearing the Voice is delighted to...
by Hearing the Voice | May 17, 2018 | Announcements, Conferences, Seminars, Lectures & Workshops, Events, HtV Research, HtV team members
Wednesday 23 May | 5:30PM | Seminar Room (Hallgarth House) We are delighted to draw your attention to the next Inventions of the Text seminar, which will take place on 23 May (5:30PM) in the Seminar Room at Hallgarth House. This session is part of a wider series of...
by Hearing the Voice | Feb 17, 2017 | HtV Research
Marco Bernini is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of English Studies, Durham University. He writes: To what extent are readers of fiction perceiving characters, narrators or authors speaking to them or through them? And if they do speak, what is their...
by Hearing the Voice | Feb 15, 2017 | HtV Research
Systematic studies of experiences of reading are few and far between. In 2014, Hearing the Voice researchers collaborated with the Edinburgh International Book Festival and the Guardian in order to investigate how readers hear (or don’t hear) the voices of...
by Hearing the Voice | Aug 11, 2014 | Cultural & Media Events, HtV Research
Many of us will recognise the experience of hearing, in our mind’s ear, the voices of people known to us. Memories of ferocious school teachers, passionate declarations of love, the everyday catchphrases of friends, and even the idiosyncratic trill of loud-mouthed...
