chapter 2 understanding & analyzing the selection
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Chapter 2
Understanding & Analyzing the Selection
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Selecting your TextWhere to Look…
LibrariesTechnologyCollege LibrariesCollege BookstoresUsed Books
Audio ResourcesNewspapersInternetTestimonyCan you think of
others?
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Selecting LiteratureConsider YourselfConsider Your CapabilitiesConsider Your AudienceConsider Literary ValueConsider Appropriateness
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Understanding the TextSpeakerSceneAudienceActAgencyPurpose
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Introductions should……prepare the audience…allow the audience to meet you…provide essential information…establish a mood
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Introductions should focus on……how you relate to the selection…the category’s requirements…social issues…the writer’s purpose…an element of the selection
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Introductions should avoid……running out of time…spoiling the experience by giving away
too much…asking trite rhetorical questions…copying someone else’s introductions…either reading or performing your
introduction
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Analyzing your textDenotative meaning
Explicit meaningConnotative meaning
Suggestions, overtonesPersona
The narratorLocus
Physical & psychological state
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Structural Components, cont’dClimax
Logical contentRepetitionRhyme
Emotional content
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Aesthetic ComponentsUnity
What holds the piece togetherEx. Persona, LocusConnectives: and, then, later…
HarmonySentence structure layout
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Aesthetic Components, Cont’dVariety
Associations are similar, but different (ex. Twins)
ContrastAssociations are opposite/different (Ex. “the
Quiet noise”
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Aesthetic Components, Cont’dBalance & proportions
RhythmStressed & Unstressed syllablesRhythm Content
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Technical ChallengesPreparing script Using ExcerptsPlacing actionIntroduction
Author of selectionPrepare audience for eventsEstablishes persona
Adopting author’s language
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Cutting Literature for PerformanceRead the ENTIRE selectionThoroughly analyze the work as a wholeContinuity is critical!Beginning, Middle, EndStay true to author’s intentAvoid cutting vivid passagesCut repetition (in prose)Cut tag linesCut subplotsCut references to something you’ve
already cut
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Rehearsal TechniquesEstablish regular schedule110%Seek audiencesMark your manuscriptVideotapeAudiotapeWork with other interpreters