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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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