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Analysis of Content: Intellectual and Emotive aspects, what each involves and how interrelated
- Intellectual or logical aspects
- i.To seem reasonable
- ii. Understanding of the meanings of the words
- The emotive quality
- i.There is nothing without emotion… imbue everything with emotional understanding (emotional
- attachments)
- ii.Our emotions alert us that something is important.
- iii.Example name reaction
- iv.To arouse pleasure or pain, some level of importance
- v. Basic way of understanding the world
The two are to be combined – In performative aspect, what emotions are conveyed
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Analysis of Structure: What it involves, 3 main types and structures of literature
- How something is composed – how the parts work as a whole
- Example Filming movies – clear understanding of where the character is in each scene emotionally
- Structure of prose, drama, and poetry all come together – characteristics in common!
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Intertextuality: what it is, what effects it may have
- near another text with on to change initial text – changes interpretation
- An interaction between stories or ideas – something inside us changes our understanding
- Expands our awareness
- i.When two things are at the same time, often think one causing or influencing the other – FALLACY
- ii.Example Hanging pictures side by side… reaction to “group”
- iii.Compare and see what had not before – unveiling potential meanings
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Denotative and connotative meanings
- i.
- Shared by all – COMMON
- ii. Example dictionary definitions
- iii.Connotative relates to personal understanding based on “your” experience and/or knowledge
- iv. Connotative relates to emotional responses!
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Persona
- i.
- Latin – “person”
- ii.Refers to the “kind” of person
- iii. The one who is speaking – normally narrator (omniscient)
- Who are you? – describe with adjectives
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Locus
- i.
- Where is it happening? – SETTING
- ii.Physical, emotional, and psychological - viewpoint/perspective/location
- iii.Can be another “character” in ability to tell story
- iv.Experiencing events or matching it – close or far
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Climax
- i.
- Important development of plot or action
- ii. High point – IMPACT
- iii.Major and minor
- Example poem “New word today” (THINK OF ALL 4 POINTS
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Rhythm
- i.
- Repetition of words and phrases
- ii. Shift of attention from one place to another
Development of Climax
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Use of Voice: volume, focus of projection
- Volume and Focus of Projection
- i.Where are the eyes looking between characters or not
- ii.Example subjective camera in movies
- iii.Duo reading in speech – reaching out to audience
- Aesthetic choices
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Use of Voice rate, pause
- Rate and Pause
- i. To create an effect based on logical and emotional understanding of text ii. Alter natural rate and pause of natural speech
- iii. Think of purpose of grammar in reading and writing – do the same in performance with sentences
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Use of Voice dialect
- Dialect
- i.To better convey a certain persona
- ii.Accents and language – WORD CHOICE
- iii Example poem “Jabberwocky” – figure out what is being suggested
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Use of Body: posture, movement, gesture
- Posture – emotional tone
- Movement – display action, contribute to what is being said
- Gesture – enrich the meaning of the text, clarification
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Rehearsal: its functions/purposes
- Clarity – perfection
- For confidence (aids confidence, aids fluency, can serve as an heuristic: to help innovate new ideas, perspectives, or ways of doing things)
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What does Victor Turner mean by “homo performans”?
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Dramaturgical Theory is based on what comprehensive metaphor?
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What is the dramaturgical model & what does it have to doe with frames?
- dramaturgical model- the view of everyday life in which social interaction is performance, settings of interaction are stages, people are actors, and viewers are audiences.
- Frams are the ways people define situations for themselfs and others
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What is Impression Management & what does it allow us to do?
In Goffman's dramaturgical theory, the process of managing settings, words, nonverbal communication, dress and apperance in a effort to give others a specific view of oneself
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What is Front & Back Stage?—be sure to review your notes in class here about how Filbel gave you more of Turner’s model
- Front state- behavors and apperances that are visable to audience (or others in an interactional situation)
- Back state- behaviors and apperances that are not visable to audiences
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What did Dwight Conquergood claim that ethnographers study?
a qualitive method of research that interprets action so as to generate understanding consistent with the frameworks of those who perform the actions
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Thick vs. thin description.
- Thick description- an ethnograpic methold that describes cultural pratices from the point of view of people who ar emembers of the particular culture or social community being studied
- Thin description-
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What is the goal of ethnography?
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What is participation-observation & how/why is it used?
A method often used in ethnograpic research in which the researcher-observer is also a participant in the situation being studied
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What is personal narrative, how is it diff. from ethnography?
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What is the dual responsibility of performance accord. to Frank?
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Performance as Polit. Action—what does that entail? What is Performativity? Is it more than one thing? What does perf. as cultural & polit. critique do?
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