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Roles in Interpretation

by: Yordon, Judy E.

Roles in Interpretation

by: Yordon, Judy E.

ISBN 13:
9780697327314
ISBN 10:
0697327310
Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 06/16/1998
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
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Summary

Tailored for novice students, yet challenging enough for advanced students, the text stresses the importance of studying literature through performance. This revision covers new multicultural and nontraditional literature. Chapter 9, "Assorted Roles", features an expanded discussion of the various selections.

PART ONE: INITIAL ROLES

(159)

1 Your Role in Interpretation

(39)

Introducing Solo Interpretation Performance

(5)

The Roles We Play

(1)

Literature and Solo Interpretation Performance

(1)

Acting and Solo Interpretation Performance

(2)

Public Speaking and Solo Interpretation Performance

(1)

What Are the Values of Solo Interpretation Performance?

(1)

What Is the Difference between Solo Interpretation Performance and Oral Reading?

(1)

What Is Intertextuality?

(3)

Class Exercises

(1)

Is Interpretation Different from Other Literature Courses?

(1)

What Is Interpretation?

(7)

Interpretation Is an Art

(1)

Interpretation Is a Process

(3)

Interpretation Is the Study of Literature

(1)

Literary Speakers

(2)

Literary Audiences

(1)

Interpretation Is Sharing Literature with an Audience

(1)

What Literary Selection Should I Choose?

(5)

Universality

(1)

Individuality

(1)

Suggestion

(1)

Class Exercise

(1)

How Do I Prepare a Selection for Performance?

(2)

A Sample Analysis and Performance

(1)

Suggestions for "The Use of Force"

(10)

A Sample Analysis of "The Use of Force"

(1)

Performance Suggestions for "The Use of Force"

(4)

Composing and Presenting the Introduction

(1)

Summary

(2)

2 Your Role with Literature: Appreciation

(34)

What Is Literature?

(6)

What Types of Literature Are Available?

(1)

Generic Classification

(1)

How Do I Find the Right Selection?

(4)

Appreciating Literature

(1)

An Anthology of Texts for Your Appreciation

(13)

Summary

(1)

Sources to Check for Selections to Perform

(8)

3 Your Role with Literature: Analysis

(34)

Types of Literary Analyses

(5)

The Dramatistic Analysis

(8)

A Sample Dramatistic Analysis of "Ringing the Bells"

(3)

Performance Suggestions for "Ringing the Bells"

(1)

Class Exercise

(4)

The Modal Approach

(15)

Speaker Modal Analysis

(5)

Audience Modal Analysis

(2)

Generic and Modal Classifications Combined

(3)

Summary of Lyric, Dramatic, and Epic Mode Characteristics

(4)

Class Exercise

102

(1)

A Sample Modal Analysis of "Dover Beach"

103

(3)

Summary

106

(2)

4 Your Role in Rehearsal and Performance

108

(38)

The Introduction

110

(4)

Styles of Delivery

111

(1)

Content

112

(2)

Using the Script/Memorization Techniques

114

(7)

Memorization Techniques

118

(3)

Class Exercise

121

(1)

Using the Lectern

121

(1)

Cutting

122

(1)

Imagery and Sensory Showing

123

(3)

Imagery

123

(1)

Sensory Imagery

124

(1)

Sensory Showing

125

(1)

Aesthetic Distance

126

(1)

Empathy and Sympathy

127

(2)

Focus

129

(12)

Projection

129

(1)

Shifts in Audience Mode

130

(3)

Class Exercise

133

(4)

Character Placement

137

(2)

Dissolve Technique

139

(1)

Class Exercise

140

(1)

Time and Place Changes

140

(1)

Tensiveness

141

(2)

Meeting the Audience

143

(2)

Summary

145

(1)

5 Your Role as Audience and Evaluator

146

(14)

Your Responsibilities as an Audience Member

147

(4)

Your Role as Audience: To Listen

147

(2)

Your Role as Audience: To Constitute

149

(1)

Your Role as Audience: To Accept

150

(1)

Your Role as Audience: To Respond

151

(1)

Your Responsibilities as an Evaluator

151

(6)

General Guidelines for Evaluation

152

(3)

Specific Guidelines for Evaluation

155

(2)

Summary

157

(3)

PART TWO: LITERARY ROLES

160

(233)

6 Your Role with Prose Fiction

160

(42)

A Sample Analysis of "The Open Window"

161

(3)

Who Is Speaking?

164

(15)

Point of View

165

(1)

Point of View and "The Open Window"

166

(1)

First-Person Point of View

167

(2)

Third-Person Point of View

169

(2)

Second-Person Point of View

171

(1)

Performance and Point of View

171

(3)

Class Exercise

174

(5)

Whom Is the Narrator Speaking To?

179

(2)

What Does the Narrator Speak About?

181

(2)

Where Does the Narrator Tell the Story From?

183

(1)

When Does the Narrator Tell the Story?

184

(6)

Rhythm of Action

185

(4)

Actual Time and Virtual Time

189

(1)

How Is the Story Told?

190

(4)

Tone and Style

190

(1)

Mood

191

(1)

Direct and Indirect Discourse

192

(1)

Tag Lines

193

(1)

Why Is the Story Told?

194

(1)

Modal Analysis of Prose Fiction

195

(2)

Putting It All Together

197

(2)

Selected Prose Fiction Texts Appropriate for Performance

199

(2)

Summary

201

(1)

7 Your Role with Drama

202

(56)

Drama and Prose Fiction

203

(1)

What Are the Basic Characteristics of Drama?

204

(1)

Who Is Speaking?

204

(21)

Character

204

(6)

Body Fact and Body Act

210

(7)

Structural and Transactional Analysis

217

(7)

Class Exercise

224

(1)

Who Is Being Addressed: Audience Mode

225

(5)

What Do the Characters Speak About?

230

(2)

Plot

230

(2)

Where and When Does the Play Take Place?

232

(1)

How Do the Characters Speak?

233

(4)

Diction and Music

233

(4)

Why Are the Characters Speaking?

237

(2)

Character Motivations and Intentions

237

(1)

Thought

238

(1)

Spectacle: The Visual and Auditory Dimensions

239

(1)

Spectacle Fact and Spectacle Act

239

(1)

A Sample Analysis of "Constantinople Smith"

240

(13)

Analysis of Constantinople Smith

248

(1)

Analysis of Christina

248

(1)

Analysis of Reality

249

(1)

Performance Suggestions for "Constantinople Smith"

250

(3)

Speaker and Audience Mode and Drama

253

(1)

Putting It All Together

254

(1)

Selected Plays Appropriate for Performance

255

(2)

Summary

257

(1)

8 Your Role with Poetry

258

(56)

Begin Analysis with the Poem's Title

260

(1)

Who Is Speaking? and Who Is Being Addressed?

261

(12)

Mode

261

(1)

Genres of Poetry

261

(2)

Class Exercise

263

(3)

Class Exercise

266

(3)

Class Exercise

269

(3)

Class Exercise

272

(1)

What Is the Speaker Speaking About?

273

(4)

When and Where Does the Speaker Speak?

277

(2)

How Does the Speaker Speak?

279

(28)

Sensory Imagery

280

(1)

Class Exercise

281

(1)

Literary Imagery

281

(4)

Class Exercise

285

(1)

Tone Color

286

(5)

Meter

291

(4)

The Most Common Types of Metrical Feet

295

(1)

Rhythmic Variety

296

(4)

Class Exercise

300

(1)

Conventional Verse and Free Verse

301

(1)

Metrical Prosody Types

301

(2)

Fulcrum

303

(4)

Climaxes

307

(1)

Why Does the Speaker Speak?

307

(1)

Putting It All Together

308

(1)

Selected Poems Appropriate for Performance

309

(2)

Summary

311

(3)

9 Assorted Roles

314

(54)

Your Role with Additional Literary Forms and Performance Styles

315

(1)

Literary Forms

315

(34)

Letters

317

(4)

Diaries

321

(4)

Essays

325

Biographies, Autobiographies, Histories

331

Children's Literature

326

(18)

Postmodern Literature

344

(5)

Performance Styles

349

(19)

The Program Performance

349

(5)

The Media Performance

354

(5)

Personal Narratives

359

(3)

Class Exercise

362

(1)

Performance Art

362

(3)

Class Exercise

365

(1)

Summary

365

(3)

10 Your Role as Group Performer: Readers Theatre and Chamber Theatre

368

(25)

Experimental Group Performance Possibilities

370

(20)

Readers Theatre

371

(11)

Chamber Theatre

382

(8)

Summary

390

(1)

Selected Texts on (or Including Information on) Group Interpretation

390

(3)

Appendix: Career Opportunities in Interpretation

393

(14)

Glossary

407

(10)

Bibliography

417

(8)

Author-Title Index

425

(8)

Subject Index

433

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