The interrelationship of performers, text, and audience in reader's theater may be better understood through philosopher Martin Buber's key concepts of polarity, dialogue, and inclusion. These concepts operate within four polar tensions identified by Buber: that between the performer and the character represented; that between the performer and…

Defines metaphorical staging as group interpretation that gives a ritual or symbolic stage form to literature and illustrates this concept by describing the staging of D. H. Lawrence's story "The Horse Dealer's Daughter". (MH)

Provides specific behavioral objectives focusing on a dramatic analysis of the literature which allows the oral interpreter enough flexibility for a range of performances based on a text. (MH)

Article reports findings of a survey of American colleges and universities. (Editor/MB)

Defines interpretation as the act and art of becoming, and correlates this concept with studies in the humanities which have as their concern the refining, civilizing and freeing of the human spirit. (MH)

Describes an upper division German literature course at California State University, Fullerton, California. (PP)

Choral reading can be used by teachers to enhance children's appreciation for poetry and to develop their personal, social, psychological, cognitive/affective, and language values. It is useful for teachers to begin by creating an awareness in children of the basic elements of choral reading: tempo, rhythm, pitch, stress, and juncture. Then an…

In this periodical, six respondents from various colleges and universities provide brief commentaries on the subject of genre study in the field of oral interpretation. According to the pamphlet's editor, all of these critics affirm the importance of literary study and genre study to performance, intimate some dissatisfaction with the terminology…

Explains steps in teaching students from grade 8 to read a selection orally with interpretive skill. (MKM)

One of the most influencial teachers of oral interpretation is examined in light of the history, theory, tools, and famous teachers of interpretation. (CH)

Recommends a return to the solo interpretive reading performance as a base for teaching oral interpretation principles and explains how to plan and organize such a performance. (SW)

The ability to think of poetry rhetorically is a valuable instrument for interpreting poetry. The poet is the speaker "of" the poem, the persona the speaker "in" the poem. The communicative circle is complete when it includes the reader who combines an analysis of the text (the words of the persona) with an analysis of the…

This bibliography includes the more important books and articles on the oral interpretation of literature published (unless otherwise indicated) in the calendar year of 1972. Publications from ancillary fields of study, such as drama, literary criticism, aesthetics, linguistics, psychology, and education, are included if there are significant…