... and his need to establish his own significance. Stoker and Rice have, in their novels, taken on specific points of view to portray their characters and events. Each has a different literary effect on the audience, and heavily influences their portrayal of vampirism, in way of the old' and new' styles. Stoker had adopted the polyphonic voice technique, detaching the audience from ... representing those areas of the world and of conscious which are, for one reason or another, not available to the normal processes of representation- (Punter, 18). The themes and plot devices of Gothic narra...

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