Résumé
Résumé de Choix de textes
À qui s’adresse-t-il ?
For readers who love speeches, recitations and poems made for the voice, and anyone curious about how public speaking was taught.
De quoi parle ce livre ?
Standard Selections is an anthology made for people who speak in public. It gathers pieces of poetry and prose that suit reciting, reading aloud and declaiming. The names on the title page are Robert I. Fulton, Edwin P. Trueblood and Thomas C. Trueblood, who edited it, and they belong to the American tradition of teaching elocution.
Books of this kind were common in schools and colleges in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Students learned to stand, breathe, shape their voices and hold a room. A collection like this gave them material to practise on. You get a range of passages chosen for sound, feeling and force, ready to be spoken.
Dans ce résumé
- 1A book built for the speaking voiceFree
- 2Poetry and prose sit side by side
- 3Chosen for eloquence and feeling
- 4How to read the pieces aloud
Point clé 1 sur 4
A book built for the speaking voice
Standard Selections belongs to a type of book once found in many classrooms, the elocution reader. Its purpose is practical. Each piece is chosen because it can be performed, not only silently read.
The editors work from a simple belief. Good speaking is a skill that anyone can learn through practice on strong texts. The pieces give the learner something to say while the teacher works on voice and manner.
For a modern reader, this changes how to approach the book. You are not meant to read it straight through like a novel. You are meant to pick a piece, say it aloud, and notice how it feels in the mouth.
That’s 1 of 4 key points.
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Questions about Choix de textes
What is Standard Selections?
It is an anthology of poetry and prose chosen for reading aloud and public speaking. It was made as practice material for students of elocution and oratory.
Who edited Standard Selections?
Thomas C. Trueblood is named as editor, with Robert I. Fulton and Edwin P. Trueblood credited as authors on the title page. They worked in the American teaching of public speaking.
Is Standard Selections a novel or a story?
No. It is a collection of separate pieces in verse and prose, so there is no single plot. You can read the pieces in any order.
Is Standard Selections hard to read?
Not usually. The pieces are made to be spoken and understood by an audience. Reading aloud helps.
Why were elocution books like this used?
Schools and colleges once taught public speaking through recitation. Anthologies gave students strong texts on which to practise voice, pace, gesture and expression.