Judith Roof

Tone (eBook, ePUB)

Writing and the Sound of Feeling

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501362583
• Artikelnr.: 60026732

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface-Key Tone Acknowledgments 1. Setting the Tone 2. Toning Up 3. Tone
Jam 4. Intoning 5. Taking That Tone 6. Two Tone 7. Two Tones 8. Atonement:
The Sound a Tree Makes When It Falls 9. Tone Down 10. Touch Tone 11. Tense
Tone 12. Tone "R" Us 13. We-Tone 14. The Tone "We" Tell 15. Tonal Dialogics
16. Inscribing Tone 17. Moebius Tone 18. Telling Tones 19. iTone 20. Toning
Fork 21. Dissonant Tones 22. Toning Up/Toning Down 23. Tone-ads 24.
RoboTone Notes Bibliography Index