Full Description
For over fifty years, Oral Interpretation has successfully prepared students to analyze and perform literature through an accessible, step-by-step process. The authors classic commitment to helping students understand literature then to embody and evoke the work has been refined to offer students 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 students at all levels. Chapters devoted to each genre---narrative, poetry, drama, group performance-explore the unique challenges of each form while newly revised chapters on Using the Body and Using the Voice in performance introduce students to technical exercises to promote performance flexibility.
Contents
Part One - Basic PrinciplesChapter One - A Beginning and an EndChapter Two - Analyzing the SelectionChapter Three - Voice Development for Oral InterpretationChapter Four - Use of the Body in Oral InterpretationPart Two - Interpretation of ProseChapter Five - Style and Types in Fiction and NonfictionChapter Six - NarrationPart 3 - Interpretation of DramaChapter Seven - Solo Performance of DramaChapter Eight - Technique in DramaPart Four - Interpretation of PoetryChapter Nine - Language of PoetryChapter Ten - Structure of PoetryPart Five - Group PerformanceChapter Eleven - Group Performance of LiteratureAppendix A - Building and Presenting a ProgramAppendix B - A Brief History of Theories of Interpretation
