1. What is Interpretation? Bowen, Chapter One

2. Three Important Ideas! We Communicate through Visible and Audible Behavior Concrete Imagery as a Basis for Selecting Behaviors Performance is an Interaction between Audience and Performer

3. Definition Develops the Three The Simplest Definition: "Reading Aloud." Bowen's First: "the oral communication of ideas and feelings from the printed page to an audience, so the audience will understand the ideas and experience the feelings."

4. Simple Communication? But Define Those Ideas and Feelings, Where They Originate. We Communicate Audibly and Visibly. But Ideas and Feelings Exist Inside Human Beings. So We must Develop Interior Ideas, Feelings and Experiences Based on Imagination

5. So We Imagine The Literature As interpreters, we try to validate our experiences within the literature. We aim for a reasonable interpretation of a work, attempting to understand and experience the work.

6. Then We Imagine Actions We seek audible and visible behaviors These can stimulate an audience to appreciate the literature in their own individual ways.

7. The Definition Develops "the communication of the reader's experience of the author's ideas and feelings to the eyes and ears of an audience, so that both the reader and the audience experience and appreciate the author's literary creation."

8. Not Don Geiger Definition, Which Says: “Oral interpretation, then, is an unformulable amalgam of acting, public speaking, critical reaction, and sympathetic sharing.” *Remember Bowen focus on experience of audience and performer, different but similar. Not a list of Parts.

9. Gura, Chapter One – Definition of Interpretation Most Important – Idea of Communion Sharing Experience w/Audience

10. “Interpretation is the art of communicating to an audience a work of literary art in its intellectual, emotional, and aesthetic entirety.” Definition from Lee / Gura

11. “Sharing an experience with both a work of literature and an audience.” Communion

12. We communicate with an audience by "vocal and physical suggestion." Medium?

13. -logical and emotion-arousing qualities of literature. - words, syntax (ordering of words in phrases or poetic lines), images. Includes meter, rhyme, rhythm, line or sentence length, etc. Intellectual and Emotional

14. -The crafted patterns that separate art from ordinary words. -Think of the qualities the book requires of our selections--- universality, individuality, and suggestion. Aesthetic Entirety

15. Ultimately --- to create human understanding of ourselves and others. "We think interpretation is the fullest way to enjoy stories, poems, and plays, because it allows us to share our experiences and our pleasures with others, and it allows others to join us in creating that experience." - Gura Why Perform?