Oral Interpretation

Timothy Gura is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Speech Communication Arts and Sciences at Brooklyn College, CUNY, in the USA. Benjamin Powell is Associate Professor of Speech, Communications, and Theatre Arts at City University of New York Borough of Manhattan Community College, in the USA.

Contents

Why Do You Need This New Edition?

To the Student

To the Instructor

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 Prose: Style, Types, Nonfiction

chapter six Prose: Narration

PART THREE: Interpretation of Drama

chapter seven Drama: Structure and Solo Performance

chapter eight Technique and Solo Performance of 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

Acknowledgments

Subject Index

Author and Selection Index