Performing Literary Texts Concepts and Skills

PERFORMING LITERARY TEXTS (WITH INFOTRAC) gives you the skills and strategies you need for success in your oral interpretation course. Offering a performance-oriented approach, you'll see you to take into account the audience and the occasion as well as diversity and culture as it relates to performance, storytelling, and analysis. You'll also learn to cope with performance anxiety, Performing Literary Texts provides you with what you need to effectively perform and analyze literary texts for diverse audiences.

Preface

xi

Introduction to Oral Performances

1

(18)

Performance and Aesthetic Communication

2

(1)

Why Perform Aesthetic Texts?

3

(1)

Performance Traditions

4

(3)

Some Western Traditions

4

(2)

Some Non- Western Traditions

6

(1)

Elements of Performance

7

(5)

Place

8

(1)

Content

8

(1)

Audience

9

(1)

Intention or Goal

10

(2)

Reading, Acting, and Performing Literary Texts

12

(1)

Overcoming Anxiety (Stage Fright)

13

(3)

Process Anxiety

13

(1)

Performance Anxiety

14

(2)

Summary

16

(1)

Key Terms

17

(1)

Questions and Exercises

17

(2)

Performers and Audiences

19

(17)

Your Relationship with Your Audience

21

(7)

Demographic Analysis

22

(1)

Psychological Analysis

22

(4)

Emotional Analysis

26

(1)

Situational Analysis

27

(1)

Your Role as an Audience Member

28

(5)

Audience Roles

28

(2)

Audience Responsibilities

30

(3)

Summary

33

(1)

Key Terms

34

(1)

Questions and Exercises

35

(1)

Selecting Literary Texts for Performance

36

(15)

Consider the Merits of the Text

37

(7)

Universality

38

(1)

Uniqueness

39

(2)

Significance

41

(2)

Emotionally Evocative Literature

43

(1)

Consider Your Interests and Skills

44

(1)

Consider the Time Allotment

45

(1)

Ethical Considerations

45

(4)

Ethics and Text Choices

45

(2)

Ethical Cutting and Adaptation

47

(1)

Copyrights and Ethics

48

(1)

Summary

49

(1)

Key Terms

49

(1)

Questions and Exercises

49

(2)

Analyzing Texts

51

(28)

Modal Analysis

52

(11)

Lyric Mode

54

(4)

Dramatic Mode

58

(3)

Epic Mode

61

(2)

Dramatistic Analysis

63

(7)

Agent---Who?

63

(1)

Act---What?

64

(1)

Scene---Where? When? In What Circumstances?

64

(1)

Agency---How?

64

(1)

Purpose---Why?

65

(1)

A Sample Dramatistic Analysis

66

(4)

Transtextual Analysis

70

(3)

Intertextuality

70

(1)

Paratexts

71

(1)

Metatexts

71

(1)

Hypotexts and Hypertexts

72

(1)

Architexts

72

(1)

Analysis Through Performance

73

(3)

Playing

73

(1)

Testing

74

(1)

Choosing

75

(1)

Repeating

75

(1)

Presenting

75

(1)

Summary

76

(1)

Key Terms

77

(1)

Questions and Exercises

77

(2)

Using Your Voice and Body

79

(27)

Vocal Expressiveness

80

(10)

Rate and Volume

81

(1)

Pitch Variation

82

(1)

Duration

83

(1)

Stress

84

(1)

Diction

85

(3)

Vocal Quality and Vocalizations

88

(1)

Phrasing

89

(1)

Bodily Expressiveness

90

(12)

Facial Expressions

92

(1)

Other Bodily Movements

93

(3)

Focus

96

(6)

Summary

102

(1)

Key Terms

103

(1)

Questions and Exercises

103

(3)

Preparing for Performance

106

(10)

Creating an Introduction

107

(3)

Draw Attention to the Text

107

(1)

Show Relevance

108

(1)

Provide Background Information

109

(1)

Identify the Text and Author

109

(1)

Put It All Together

109

(1)

Familiarizing Yourself with the Text

110

(3)

Using a Manuscript

113

(1)

Summary

114

(1)

Key Terms

114

(1)

Questions and Exercises

114

(2)

Performing Prose

116

(34)

Nonfiction Prose

117

(5)

Expository Prose

117

(1)

Essays and Opinion Pieces

118

(1)

Journals, Diaries, and Letters

119

(2)

Speeches

121

(1)

Biographies and Autobiographies

121

(1)

Fictional Prose

122

(11)

Elements of Stories

123

(3)

Analyze the Narrator

126

(3)

Determine the Nature of the Intended Audience

129

(2)

Cultural Stories

131

(2)

Cutting Your Piece

133

(2)

Preparing Your Prose Performance

135

(1)

Prose Literature for Study and Practice

136

(11)

Summary

147

(1)

Key Terms

148

(1)

Questions and Exercises

148

(2)

Performing Drama

150

(26)

Characteristics of Drama

152

(6)

Spectacle

152

(1)

Minimal Narration

153

(1)

Dramatic Language

154

(2)

The Structure of Drama

156

(1)

Dramatic Genres

156

(2)

Preparing to Perform Drama

158

(10)

Find an Appropriate Script

158

(1)

Analyze the Script

159

(3)

Select a Cutting That Meets Your Purposes

162

(2)

Prepare Your Performance

164

(4)

Dramatic Literature for Study and Practice

168

(6)

Summary

174

(1)

Key Terms

174

(1)

Questions and Exercises

175

(1)

Performing Poetry

176

(33)

Poetic Language

178

(9)

Denotative and Connotative Meanings

179

(1)

Titles

180

(1)

Sensory Imagery

181

(1)

Tone Color and Tone

182

(2)

Literary Imagery

184

(2)

Repetition

186

(1)

Rhyme and Rhythm

187

(5)

Rhymes and Rhyme Patterns

187

(1)

Rhythm and Meter

188

(4)

Classifications of Poetry

192

(4)

Narrative Poetry

192

(1)

Lyric Poetry

193

(1)

Dramatic Poetry

194

(2)

Poems for Study and Practice

196

(9)

Summary

205

(1)

Key Terms

206

(1)

Questions and Exercises

207

(2)

Performing in Groups

209

(14)

Unison Readings

210

(1)

Responsive Readings

211

(2)

Choral Readings

213

(3)

Duo Interpretations

216

(2)

Readers Theatre

218

(3)

Preparing the Script

219

(1)

Staging the Performance

219

(2)

Summary

221

(1)

Key Terms

221

(1)

Questions and Exercises

221

(2)

APPENDIX: SPEECH TEAM COMPETITIONS

223

(4)

Competitive Speech Events

223

(1)

Bookwork

224

(1)

Judging

225

(2)

References

227

(12)

Index

239

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