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Oral Interpretation

by: Gura,Timothy

Oral Interpretation

by: Gura,Timothy

ISBN 13:
9780205555246
ISBN 10:
0205555241
Edition: 11th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 06/14/2004
Publisher: Routledge
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Based on the authors' philosophy that scholarship, technical know-how, sensitivity, and the desire to share are cornerstones of interpretation, this classic text provides students who are new to performance study with a solid foundation in literary analysis and performance. The Eleventh Edition includes more than 100 classic and contemporary poems, short stories, and dramatic works to inspire students.Practical features include a discussion of performance ethics; suggestions for a student' s first performance; special insights on maximizing the use of the voice and body; "Analyzing the Performance" sections; and "Rehearsal Tips."

Basic Principles
A Beginning and an End
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. The Sense of Death, Helen Hoyt. I Felt a Funeral, Emily Dickinson. Dulce, Deborah Sherman
Preliminary Analysis: Hoyt's Poem
Preliminary Analysis: Dickinson's Poem
Preliminary Analysis: Sherman's Story
Analyzing the Selection
Preparing the First Performance
Major Structural Components: New Words, Maury Yeston
Major Aesthetic Components
Using the Tools: The Story of an Hour, Kate Chopin. I Felt a Funeral, Emily Dickinson
Synthesis
Analyzing the Rehearsal and the Performance
Selections for Analysis and Oral Interpretation: When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer, Walt Whitman. Sonnet, John Keats. The Starlight Night, Gerard Manley Hopkins. Desert Places, Robert Frost. From A Christmas Memory, Truman Capote. Ringing the Bells, Anne Sexton. Dreaming, Amanda McBroom. Homework, Peter Cameron. Upon Learning That a Junior High School Acquaintance Has Been Nominated for an Academy Award, Joanne Gilbert. How to Watch Your Brother Die, Michael Lassell. From Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J. K. Rowling
Voice Development for Oral Interpretation
Relaxation Technique
Breath Control
Volume and Projection
Pitch and Quality: The Wild Honeysuckle, Philip Freneau. From I Hear America Singing, Walt Whitman
Rate and Pause
Intelligibility of Speech
Dialect
Selections for Analysis and Oral Interpretation: A Night at the Opera
From A Very Rigid Search
Confess, Early and Often
Jabberwocky
From The Little Girls
Dover Beach
Back at the Ranch
Her Story
The Lesson
From The Night Chant, Navajo Ceremonial Chant, Translated
From Blue Highways
The Voice You Hear When You Read Silently
Use of the Body in Oral Interpretation
Technique
Posture
Kinesics
Sense Imagery
Empathy
Using Your Body in Rehearsal
Eye Contact
Analyzing the Rehearsal and the Performance
Selections for Analysis and Oral Interpretation: The Second Coming, William Butler Yeats. Flying Finish, Bill Hayes. Ulysses, Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio, James Wright. From Friday Night Lights, H. G. Bissinger. The .38, Ted Joans. Still Life, Diane Ackerman. Girl, Jamaica Kincaid. Affirmative Action, Lucille Clifton. The Race, Sharon Olds. The Negro Speaks of Rivers, Langston Hughes. Old Lady's Winter Words, Theodore Roethke. From Jarheads, Anthony Swofford. From As You Like It, William Shakespeare. Admission of Failure, Phyllis Koestenbaum
Interpretation of Prose
Style and Types in Fiction and Nonfiction
Style
Types of Prose
Selections for Analysis and Oral Interpretation: From June Recital, Eudora Welty. From The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan. From The Revolution Remembered, John C. Dann, Editor. From Everything We Had, Al Santoli, Editor. From The Seacoast of Despair, Joan Didion. From I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou. From Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey, Lillian Schlissel, Editor. The Makeup Artist, Dana Tierney. To Austin Dickinson, Emily Dickinson. From Working, Studs Terkel. KEEP OUT! (A Boy's Bedroom), Lynda Barry
Narration
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? Setting
Cutting and Excerpting
Analyzing the Rehearsal and the Performance
Selections for Analysis and Oral Interpretation: The Prison, Bernard Malamud. A&P, John Updike. Snow, Ann Beattie. From Sula, Toni Morrison. From The Lost Language of Cranes, David Leavitt. Popular Mechanics, Raymond Carver. Jacob's Chicken, Milos Macourek. The Key to My Father, Harlan Coben. From The Conversion of the Jews, Philip Roth
Interpretation of Drama
Solo Performance of Drama
The Nature of Drama
Why Perform Drama?
What Is the Difference Between Acting and Interpretation?
Structural Elements of a Play
Analyzing a Scene
Working a Scene
Rhythm
Style
Scenography
Putting It Together
Selections for Analysis and Oral Interpretation: From Fifth of July, Lanford Wilson. From Fires in the Mirror, Anna Deavere Smith. From Othello, William Shakespeare. From She Stoops to Conquer, Oliver Goldsmith. From Flyin' West, Pearl Cleage
Technique in Drama
Technique in Interpretation
Properties
Embodying Characters
Coordinating Bodies and Voices of Characters
Physical Contact
Interplay of Characters
Physical Focus
The Reading Stand
Cutting and Excerpting
Analyzing the Rehearsal and the Performance
Selections for Analysis and Oral Interpretation: From Sunday in the Park with George, Stephen Sondheim. From Curse of the Starving Class, Sam Shepard. From Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare. From Betrayal, Scene Five, Harold Pinter. From Death and the King's Horseman, Wole Soyinka
Interpretation of Poetry
Language of Poetry
Poetic Content
Classification of Poetry
Figurative Language: To Autumn, John Keats
Poetic Syntax
Tone Color
Titles
Analysis and Poems
Selections for Analysis and Oral Interpretation: Power, Corrine Hales. The Windhover, Gerard Manley Hopkins. The Toast, Susan Minot. Wild Grapes, Robert Frost. Spring is like a perhaps hand, e. e. cummings. The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm, Wallace Stevens. Nikki-Rosa, Nikki Giovanni. Saving Memory, Mary Stewart Hammond. Mid-Term Break, Seamus Heaney. On Sleeping Together, Barbara Howes. Talking in Bed, Philip Larkin. The Hospital Window, James Dickey. Most Like an Arch This Marriage, John Ciardi. First Grade, William Stafford. Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note, Imamu Amiri Baraka
Structure of Poetry
Why Study Prosody?
Kinds of Verse
The Stanza
The Line
Cadences
Rhyme
Intention and Performance
Analyzing the Rehearsal and the Performance
Selections for Analysis and Oral Interpretation: One Art, Elizabeth Bishop. The Walking, Theodore Roethke. Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, Dylan Thomas. Journey of the Magi, T. S. Eliot. The Magi, Louise Glück. A Blessing, James Wright. Heartbeats, Melvin Dixon. Who Among You Knows the Essence of Garlic? Garrett Kaoru Hongo. My Last Duchess, Robert Browning. The Kilgore Rangerette Whose Life Was Ruined, Cynthia MacDonald. From Fatal Interview, Edna St. Vincent Millay. Cinderella, Anne Sexton. Cinderella's Story, Mona Van Duyn. Today Is a Day of Great Joy, Victor Hernandez Cruz. From Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful, Alice Walker
Group Performance
Group Performance of Literature
Readers Theater
Chamber Theater
Group Performance of Compiled Scripts
Other Kinds of Literature
Directing the Group Performance of Literature
Some Concluding Cautions
Analyzing the Rehearsal and the Performance
Selections for Analysis and Oral Interpretation: From The Metamorphoses, Ovid. From The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Section III, Bertolt Brecht. 40-Love, Roger McGough. Forsythia, Mary Ellen Solt. Apfel, Reinhard Döhl. From Oedipus the King, Sophocles. Unforgiven, David Ray. After the Overdose, Robin Robertson. From Sunday Bloody Sunday, Penelope Gilliatt
Appendix A. Building and Presenting a Program
Selecting Material
Unifying the Program: A Traditional Method
Using Multiple Readers, Different Types of Literature, and Multimedia
Staging the New York Times
Other Options
Adapting to the Audience
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