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Elocution, Interpretation, and Literary Performance Elocution, Interpretation, and Literary Performance
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Dramatic Interpretation with Musical Accompaniment Dramatic Interpretation with Musical Accompaniment
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Tennyson’s Spectral Energy Tennyson’s Spectral Energy
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Tremor Tremor
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Force Force
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3 Alfred, lord Tennyson’s Spectral Energy: Historical Intonation in Dramatic Recitation
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Published:June 2019
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Abstract
Chapter 3 tells the story of the multiple recordings made between 1890 and 1920, both by the poet himself and by actors and elocutionists, of Tennyson’s poem “The Charge of The Light Brigade.” It analyzes the kinds of performance and genre that informed the production of these recordings and locates the speech sounds heard on them in debates of the period about elocution and verse speaking. An account of late Victorian methods of “dramatic” interpretation as elaborated by Samuel Silas Curry in Imagination and Dramatic Instinct opens into a longer genealogy of oral interpretation, and considers the import of New Criticism as a method of literary interpretation that worked to silence oral performance in the classroom. The close listening in this chapter also explores the potential of digital speech analysis tools to help us to fix and visualize elocutionary, prosodic features of these recordings of “Charge.”
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