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An introduction to world literature is provided through dramatic readings including poetry, drama, short stories, and nonfiction
In its 13th Edition, the iconic Oral Interpretation continues to prepare students to analyze and perform literature through an accessible, step-by-step process. New selections join classic favorites, and chapters devoted to specific genres—narrative, poetry, group performance, and more—explore the unique challenges of each form. Now tighter and more focused than its predecessors, this edition highlights movements in contemporary culture—especially the contributions of social media to current communication. New writings offer advice and strategies for maximizing body and voice in performance, and enhanced devices guide novices in performance preparation.
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From the classroom to public performance, Oral Interpretation will help your students bring poetry, prose, and drama to life through a series of interesting and varied exercises. Students will discover and interpret a wide range of classic and modern literature, from children's literature to the literature of other cultures, from Greek drama to contemporary poetry, from great speeches to ensemble pieces. Oral Interpretation will help students develop interpretation skills - such as physicalizing metaphors and idioms, acquiring vocal agility and quality, and expanding sense memory - to enhance their performances.
Excerpt from The Oral Interpretation of Literature Literature is the most complicated of all forms of art. Moreover, the positive principles of a logical coherence have yet to be established. Perhaps such principles do exist. If they do, it may be that we shall never find them. In the meantime, although the tasks are not easy, the aesthetic approach is not beyond the understanding of the student. The effort to achieve such an understanding is more than worthwhile, for it will help the student to a fuller appreciation of his own real experiences. It is well for the reader to remember that, by its very nature as an art, literature will develop in him the habitude of change. The reader who expl...