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Tone - Writing and the Sound of Feeling (Hardcover)
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Tone - Writing and the Sound of Feeling (Hardcover)
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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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