Tone

Writing and the Sound of Feeling

AvJudith Roof

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-10-29
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Filformat:PDF
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781501362590
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Digital)

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Judith Roof is the William Shakespeare Chair in English at Rice University, USA. She is the author of The Comic Event: Comedic Performance from the 1950s to the Present (Bloomsbury, 2018), What Gender Is, What Gender Does (2016), as well as five other monographs, six edited (or co-edited) books, and more than 80 essays on topics ranging from modern drama to The Big Lebowski, Ethel Merman, Posthumanism, the novels of Percival Everett, the work of Rabelais, Beckett, Pinter, Duras, psychoanalysis, narrative theory, film studies, genetics, critical legal studies, and secondary characters.

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Through close readings of a great variety of recent literary texts approached from the innovative angle of 'tone,' this book sheds new light on the inseparable processes of reading and narrating. Its brilliant analyses of tone, while further exploring the interactions of rhetoric and politics, allow to thoroughly revisit literary genres and categories as well as the definitions of some of the basic terms of criticism.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface-Key ToneAcknowledgments1. Setting the Tone2. Toning Up3. Tone Jam4. Intoning5. Taking That Tone6. Two Tone7. Two Tones8. Atonement: The Sound a Tree Makes When It Falls9. Tone Down10. Touch Tone11. Tense Tone12. Tone "R" Us13. We-Tone14. The Tone “We” Tell15. Tonal Dialogics16. Inscribing Tone17. Moebius Tone18. Telling Tones19. iTone20. Toning Fork21. Dissonant Tones22. Toning Up/Toning Down23. Tone-ads24. RoboToneNotesBibliographyIndex