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. ... The audience's identification with Lestat is not only aided by this first person narrative of his life, but by the fact that he perceives himself as both human and evil. ...

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