Tone: Writing and the Sound of Feeling Contributor(s): Roof, Judith (Author) |
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ISBN: 1501362577 ISBN-13: 9781501362576 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $29.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century - Literary Criticism | Modern - 21st Century - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
Dewey: 801.92 |
LCCN: 2020003347 |
Physical Information: 288 pages |
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Publisher Description: Tone is often decisive in whether we love or dislike a story, novel, or even critical essay. Yet literary critics rarely treat tone as a necessary or important element of literary style or critique. There are surprisingly few analyses of what tone is, how texts produce tone, or the ways tone--as an essential element of narration--contributes to character, story, mood, and voice. Tone's 24 micro-chapters offer a playful, eclectic, and fast-paced guide into the creation of tone in a variety of modern and contemporary works of literature by such varied writers as Hemingway, Woolf, and Sedaris, as well as in criticism, advertising, and machine-authored texts. Judith Roof shows how tone is a crucial element in all writing, as it produces the illusion of a telling voice; creates a sense of character, personality, and attitude; inflects events recounted; anticipates certain directions and possibilities; and creates an ambiance that simultaneously produces, enables, and shapes narratives and characters. Tone gives us a lively and original way to rethink the practice of literary criticism. |