Oral Interpretation

by Gura; Timothy

• ISBN13: 9780205582860
• ISBN10: 0205582869
• Edition: 12th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-02-02
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

For over fifty years,Oral Interpretationhas successfully prepared readers to analyze and perform literature through an accessible, step-by-step process. The authors classic commitment to helping readersunderstandliterature then toembodyandevokethe work has been refined to offer a more concise, user-friendly process that will help them succeed in their daunting first performance. Updated with a tightly edited collection of classic and contemporary selections, each chapter provides a wide variety of selections for learners at all levels. Chapters devoted to each genre---narrative, poetry, drama, group performanceexplore the unique challenges of each form while newly revised chapters on Using the Body and Using the Voice in performance introduce readers to technical exercises to promote performance flexibility.

Table of Contents

Basic Principles

A Beginning and an End Expect This!

Interpretation Requires

Communicating Interpretation Engages an Audience Interpretation

Involves a Literary Work in Its Intellectual and Emotional

Entirety Interpretation Celebrates a Literary Work in Its Aesthetic Entirety

Important Early Questions: Why Perform?

Is this Acting?

Sources of Material Intertextuality Choosing Your Selection

Three Touchstones Preliminary Analysis

Hoytrsquo;s Poem Preliminary Analysis

Dickinsonrsquo;s Poem Preliminary Analysis

Shermanrsquo;s Story Remember This!

Bibliography

Analyzing the Selection Expect This!

Preparing the First Performance Major Structural Components

Major Aesthetic Components Using the Tools

Synthesis Analyzing the Rehearsal and the Performance Remember

This! Selections for Analysis and Oral Interpretation

Bibliography

Voice Development for Oral Interpretation Expect

This! Relaxation Technique Breath Control Volume and Projection

Pitch and Quality Rate and Pause

Intelligibility of Speech Dialect Remember

This! Selections for Analysis and Oral Interpretation

Bibliography

Use of the Body in Oral Interpretation Expect This!

Technique Posture Kinesics Sense Imagery Empathy Using

Your Body in Rehearsal Eye Contact Analyzing the Rehearsal and the Performance Remember

This! Selections for Analysis and Oral Interpretation

Bibliography

Interpretation of Prose

Style and Types in Fiction and Nonfiction Expect

This! Style Types of Prose Remember

This! Selections for Analysis and Oral Interpretation

Bibliography

Narration Expect

This! Who Is Telling the Story?

Point of View What Is Going on Here?

Action and Plot What Sort of People Live in This Story?

Character What Are They Saying to Each Other?

Dialogue Creating Character Where Is All This Taking Place? Set

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