Delight and Power in Speech

About this eBook

Author

James, George Wharton, 1858-1923

Title

Delight and power in speech : A universal dramatic reader; a new, complete and practical method of securing delight and efficiency in silent and oral reading and private and public speech; together with a large and varied collection of carefully chosen selections in prose and poetry, with chapters on "The cultivation of the memory" and "After dinner speaking."

Original Publication

Pasadena, California: The Radiant Life Press, 1919.

Credits

ellinora, MFR and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections

Subject

Recitations

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 71798

Release Date

October 3, 2023

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.DELIGHT and POWER IN SPEECH
2. 2.INTRODUCTION — The Selections of the Book
3. 3.PART ONE Intelligent and Intelligible Reading
4. 4.CHAPTER I READING AND PUBLIC SPEECH
5. 5.CHAPTER II EFFECTIVE SPEECH — The Basis for Good Oral Reading — The Basis for Good Silent Reading — Get the Author’s Thought — We Are Not Studying Style — Three Definite Aims to Gain Knowledge — Each Aim Illustrated
6. 6.CHAPTER III INVENTORY OF SPEECH EFFICIENCY — The Knowing — The Doing
7. 7.CHAPTER IV ORAL READING — Teacher’s First Great Task — What Is Expression? — Greatest Educational Value — The Desire to Express — The Channels of Expression — Merging of the Channels
8. 8.CHAPTER V SELECTIONS FOR PART ONE — THE DOUGLAS SQUIRREL — WORK AND THE WORKER — THE MUSIC OF AMERICA — THE VIRTUES OF LOVE — THE MAJESTY OF THE OCEAN — THE GRAY DAYS — THE PRESENT CRISIS
9. 9.CHAPTER VI ARTICULATION EXERCISES — I. For the Lips and Jaw — II. For Lips, Tongue and Soft Palate — III. The Aspirates, or Breath Sounds — IV. The Sub-Vocal Sounds — V. The Liquid Sounds — VI. The Nasal Sounds — VII. Combination Sounds — The Habit of Swallowing the “G” — Practice Exercises — Overcoming the Rising Inflection — Exercises in Inflectional Agility — Exercises Developing Force and Rate of Speech
10. 10.CHAPTER VII CORRECTION OF SPEECH DEFECTS — The Problem — Characteristics of the Stammerer — The Stutterer
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII ENUNCIATION AND PRONUNCIATION — Exercise One — Exercise Two — Exercises in Enunciation and Pronunciation — Key to Pronunciation
12. 12.PART TWO Identification of the Reader with the Story, or Sympathetic Reading
13. 13.CHAPTER IX GETTING THE AUTHOR’S MOOD — Hints to the Student — Mood-Analysis — A Student’s Analysis of “Columbus” — A Suggestive Outline for the Study of a Selection — A Condensed Outline for the Study of a Selection for Oral Presentation
14. 14.PROSE SELECTIONS
15. 15.HUMOROUS SELECTIONS
16. 16.PATHETIC SELECTIONS
17. 17.DRAMATIC SELECTIONS
18. 18.DIALECT SELECTIONS
19. 19.PART THREE Melodious Reading — EXPRESSIVE SPEECH [9]
20. 20.CHAPTER X MELODIOUS READING — Exercises in Inflection — A Study of Pitch — Study in Stress — A Study of the Pause — Study of the Importance of Tone
21. 21.CHAPTER XI HOW TO READ POETRY — PISGAH-SIGHT — DAWN — FLOWER IN THE CRANNIED WALL — THE WORKER’S GUERDON — MY HEART LEAPS UP
22. 22.POETICAL SELECTIONS
23. 23.COLLOQUIAL SELECTIONS IN POETRY
24. 24.HUMOROUS SELECTIONS IN POETRY
25. 25.HUMOROUS DIALECT SELECTIONS IN POETRY
26. 26.PATHETIC SELECTIONS IN POETRY
27. 27.DRAMATIC SELECTIONS IN POETRY
28. 28.SUBLIME SELECTIONS IN POETRY
29. 29.LYRIC SELECTIONS IN POETRY
30. 30.CHAPTER XII IMPERSONATION — PRACTICE SELECTION
31. 31.PART FOUR Oratoric Reading and the Art of Public Speech — HAMLET’S INSTRUCTION TO THE PLAYERS
32. 32.CHAPTER XIII ORATORIC READING AND THE ART OF PUBLIC SPEECH — THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS — SELECTIONS FOR PART FOUR
33. 33.CHAPTER XIV PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FOR THE AFTER-DINNER SPEAKER
34. 34.CHAPTER XV THE CULTIVATION OF THE MEMORY — Stokes’s Golden Rule of Memory — Strengthening the Observation — Suggestive Methods to Pursue — It Is Difficult to Observe Properly — Develop the Power of Reflection — Thought-Linking — The Incidental Method — The Accidental Method — The Scientific Method — The Pictorial Method — Methods of Constructive Thought-Linking — Think of the Impressions
35. 35.FOOTNOTES
36. 36.INDEX

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