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Oral interpretation

Here are entered works on understanding and appreciation of various forms of literature through oral presentation. Works on the art and technical skill of reading aloud are entered under Oral reading.

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• Oral communication
• Oral reading
• Reading

• Oral interpretation -- Mayotte
• Storytelling

• Interpretative reading
• Interpretative speech
• Reading, Interpretative
• Speech, Interpretative

• Folktales of Mayotte, an African Island (Cambridge, UK: OpenBook Publishers, c2023), by Lee Haring, contrib. by Claude Allibert, N. J. Gueunier, and Sophie Blanchy (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Living With Stories: Telling, Re-Telling, and Remembering (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2008), ed. by William S. Schneider (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• ...So They Understand...: Cultural Issues in Oral History (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2002), ed. by William S. Schneider (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• The Art of Story-Telling, With Nearly Half a Hundred Stories (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1916), by Julia Darrow Cowles (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Art of the Story-Teller (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1917 (c1915)), by Marie L. Shedlock (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Educating by Story-Telling: Showing the Value of Story-Telling as an Educational Tool For the Use of All Workers With Children (Yonkers-on-Hudson, NY: World Book Co., 1919), by Katherine Dunlap Cather (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays, by Mark Twain (multiple formats at archive.org)
• How to Tell Stories to Children and Some Stories to Tell, by Sara Cone Bryant (Gutenberg text)
• Children's Stories and How to Tell Them (Springfield, MA: Home Correspondence School, c1917), by J. Berg Esenwein and Marietta Stockard
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• More Magic Pictures of the Long Ago: Stories of the People of Many Lands, With Reproductions From Works of Art and Old Manuscripts (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1920), by Anna Curtis Chandler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Stories Children Need (Springfield, MA et al: Milton Bradley Co., c1916), by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Storytellers: Six Months With the Storytellers' Magazine (compilation from early issues; New York: Storytellers Co., 1915) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Good Stories for Great Holidays, ed. by Frances Jenkins Olcott (HTML at Virginia)
• Good Stories for Great Holidays, ed. by Frances Jenkins Olcott (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)

• Stories as Equipment for Living: Last Talks and Tales of Barbara Myerhoff (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Barbara G. Myerhoff, ed. by Marc Kaminsky, Mark Weiss, and Deena Metzger, contrib. by Thomas R. Cole (page images at HathiTrust)

• Telling Stories: Language, Narrative, and Social Life (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2008; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2010), ed. by Deborah Schiffrin, Anna De Fina, and Anastasia Nylund (PDF at Georgetown)

• Transmedia Storytelling: Imagery, Shapes and Techniques (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2013), by Max Giovagnoli (PDF with commentary at CMU)

• The Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio (multiple editions)
• Snowbound: The Record of a Theatrical Touring Party, by Bram Stoker (HTML at bramstoker.org)

• Chuj (Mayan) Narratives: Folklore, History, and Ethnography From Northwestern Guatemala (Louisville, CO: University Press of Colorado, c2021), by Nicholas A. Hopkins (PDF and Epub with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Story Hour Readers Manual: The Story Method (New York et al.: American Book Co., c1914), by Ida Coe and Alice Christie Dillon
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2015), ed. by Francesca Orsini and Katherine Butler Schofield (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• The Old Nurse's Stocking-Basket (c1931), by Eleanor Farjeon (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Catskill Fairies (New York: Harper and Bros., 1876), by Virginia W. Johnson, illust. by Alfred Fredericks
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at Florida
• Grandma's Miracles, or, Stories Told at Six O'Clock in the Evening (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1902), by Isabella Macdonald Alden (page images at Google; US access only)
• Across the Common After Wild Flowers (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1895), by M. C. Cooke (page images at ufl.edu)
• As the Goose Flies (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., c1901), by Katharine Pyle (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Stories Polly Pepper Told to the Five Little Peppers in the Little Brown House (Boston: Lothrop Publishing Co., c1899), by Margaret Sidney, illust. by Jessie McDermott and Etheldred B. Barry (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Storytellers' Magazine (1913-1918; issues online 1913-1917) (partial serial archives)

• The Earthly Paradise (from Boston and London editions, 1868-1870), by William Morris
  • March-August: illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • September-November: HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • December-February: HTML at sacred-texts.com

• The Audacious Raconteur: Sovereignty and Storytelling in Colonial India (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2020), by Leela Prasad (PDF with commentary at Duke)

• Storytelling in Northern Zambia: Theory, Method, Practice and Other Necessary Fictions (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2013), by Robert Cancel (PDF and HTML with commentary at openbookpublishers.com)

• Prose Fiction: An Introduction to the Semiotics of Narrative (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2019), by Ignasi Ribó (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Cultural Secrets as Narrative Form: Storytelling in Nineteenth-Century America (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2004), by Margaret Reid (PDF from Ohio State University Press)

• Transmedia Storytelling: Imagery, Shapes and Techniques (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2013), by Max Giovagnoli (PDF with commentary at CMU)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Defusing Hate: A Strategic Communication Guide to Counteract Dangerous Speech (with workbooks; Washington: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2016), by Rachel Hilary Brown (PDF files with commentary at ushmm.org)

• Rhetoric of Conversation: or, Bridles and Spurs for the Management of the Tongue, by George Winfred Hervey (page images at MOA)
• Gendering Talk (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, c2003), by Robert Hopper (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Prejudice in Discourse: An Analysis of Ethnic Prejudice in Cognition and Conversation (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1984), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at discourses.org)

• Living With Stories: Telling, Re-Telling, and Remembering (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2008), ed. by William S. Schneider (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• ...So They Understand...: Cultural Issues in Oral History (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2002), ed. by William S. Schneider (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1996), by Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Imagined States: Nationalism, Utopia, and Longing in Oral Cultures (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2001), ed. by Luisa Del Giudice and Gerald Porter
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Oral Literature in the Digital Age: Archiving Orality and Connecting with Communities (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2013), ed. by Mark Turin, Claire Wheeler, and Eleanor Wilkinson (PDF and HTML with commentary at openbookpublishers.com)
• Living With Stories: Telling, Re-Telling, and Remembering (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2008), ed. by William S. Schneider (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Stand Up, Speak Out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking (derived from Creative Commons licensed edition published by Flat World Knowledge, ca. 2011), by Jason S. Wrench, Anne Goding, Danette Ifert Johnson, and Bernardo A. Attias (PDF at saylor.org)
• The Art of Public Speaking (Springfield, MA: Home Correspondence School, c1915), by J. Berg Esenwein and Dale Carnegie (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• How to Attract and Hold an Audience: A Practical Treatise on the Nature, Preparation, and Delivery of Public Discourse (New York: Hinds, Hayden and Eldredge, c1902), by J. Berg Esenwein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Phrases for Public Speakers and Paragraphs for Study (1910), ed. by Grenville Kleiser (Gutenberg text)
• The Complete Debater's Manual (Chicago: F. J. Drake and Co., c1902), by Charles Walter Brown (page images at HathiTrust)

• Speech Understanding Research (final technical report; Menlo Park, CA: Stanford Research Institute, 1976), ed. by Donald E. Walker (PDF at dtic.mil)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.