Oral Interpretation - Brossura

Gura, Timothy

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0205582869 ISBN 13: 9780205582860

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2009

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Timothy Gura, Brooklyn College
Charlotte Lee

Contenuti:

Part One ― Basic Principles
Chapter One ― A Beginning and an End
Chapter Two ― Analyzing the Selection
Chapter Three ― Voice Development for Oral Interpretation
Chapter Four ― Use of the Body in Oral Interpretation
Part Two ― Interpretation of Prose
Chapter Five ― Style and Types in Fiction and Nonfiction
Chapter Six ― Narration
Part 3 ― Interpretation of Drama
Chapter Seven ― Solo Performance of Drama
Chapter Eight ― Technique in Drama
Part Four ― Interpretation of Poetry
Chapter Nine ― Language of Poetry
Chapter Ten ― Structure of Poetry
Part Five ― Group Performance
Chapter Eleven ― Group Performance of Literature
Appendix A ― Building and Presenting a Program
Appendix B ― A Brief History of Theories of Interpretation

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0205582869
• ISBN 13: 9780205582860
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 520