John Dewey's Interaction Theory: Its Application to the Performance of Poetry.

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Drama; Dramatics; Educational Theories; Higher Education; Interpretive Reading; Language Patterns; Linguistic Performance; Literary Criticism; Poetry; Speech Communication

This paper attempts to distill John Dewey's theory of poetic compression and suggests its possible application as a technique that the performer can use to confront poetic language. Specifically, Dewey's discussions of modes of interaction in art and of the expanding and contracting character of language are used to illuminate the language of the chorus in Shakespeare's "Henry V." (Author/KS)

1977

ED133776