How to gesture - PDF ebook by Edward Amherst Amherst

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How to gesture 

This book is designed to help those who wish simply to become good speakers, as well as ambitious students of oratory. While not written for the theorist, the author believes it to be scientific. It goes only so far into the ideal in oratory as is consistent with utility. It employs the method of teaching gestures by using symbols with typical sentences, a method whose usefulness has been amply demonstrated by its many successes. The author does not claim originality. 

The method is used by many teachers East and West. One feature, however, should particularly commend it, — the practice work employs quotations so familiar that everyone will recognize them and all should memorize them. 

Thus the student acquires, apparently without effort, hundreds of maxims, apt ideas well put; and, better still, he comes under the reflex influence of the many good thoughts well expressed. This feature alone, simply by imparting a certain facility in the smoothness of phrase, should render the work invaluable to every interested student of the art of public speaking.

Introduction vii

I. Exhortation i

II. Beginnings 6

III. Presence 8

IV. Legs and Feet 13

V. The Arms and Hands as a Unit 18

VI. The Elbows and Hands 26

VII. Shoulders, Chest, and Head 31

VIII. Walking the Platform 35

IX. Pictures on the Platform 43

X. Descriptive Action 50

XI. The Will in Expression 54

XII. Transition 58

XIII. Gestures made with Both Hands .... 63

XIV. Gestures in which the Preparation is Long Cotinued 67

XV. Exercises for Review Practice 71

XVI. Alternate Gestures 76

XVII. Special Motions and Positions 79

XVIII. Attitudes 84

XIX. Judgment in Gesture 90

XX. General Rules and Suggestions 95

XXI. Quotations 100

XXII. Quotations from the Bible 102

XXIII. Quotations from the Latin 105

XXIV. Quotations and Studies from Various Authors. 109
XXV. Miscellaneous Quotations and Studies . . . 124

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Author: Edward Amherst Amherst

Publication date:1902

Company:New York, Hinds & Noble

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