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 the resident evil and evoking almost a sense of protection for his readers. ... Rice adopts such a technique to display perhaps one of the most central distinctions between the old' and new' styles in the presentation of vampirism. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate