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Bodily movement , when intensified and regularly patterned in space and time , becomes dance in the same way that random speech can be raised to the level of verse , chant and finally song . Dance is an extremely expressive art form ...
Bodily movement , when intensified and regularly patterned in space and time , becomes dance in the same way that random speech can be raised to the level of verse , chant and finally song . Dance is an extremely expressive art form ...
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Because the human figure , seen full length , is the focal point of drama , movement and gesture are at least as expressive as dialogue in projecting character and character relationships . Only those physical actions necessary to the ...
Because the human figure , seen full length , is the focal point of drama , movement and gesture are at least as expressive as dialogue in projecting character and character relationships . Only those physical actions necessary to the ...
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The extra stress of the two pre - modifications , * palm wine ' and ' palm tree ' – in contrast with the two triple metre units , ' carelessly slips ' and ' From the sleeping ' , which fall between - produces a slight swinging movement ...
The extra stress of the two pre - modifications , * palm wine ' and ' palm tree ' – in contrast with the two triple metre units , ' carelessly slips ' and ' From the sleeping ' , which fall between - produces a slight swinging movement ...
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Contents
The Nature of Literature and its Historical Tradition | 1 |
Narrative Fiction and the Printed Word | 39 |
Aesthetic Elements of Narrative Fiction | 48 |
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