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PDF pending restorationBacon, Wallace A. – 1976
Ideally, the act of performance involves the whole body of the performer. The solo performer of any poem (defined broadly to include all types of literature) becomes the poem; the poem takes flesh in the form of the reader. In this situation, the reader gives the audience a close-up, in which small gestures and minimal movements assume massive…
Descriptors: Acting, Creative Expression, Expressive Language, Interpretive Reading
