Tone - by Judith Roof (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Explores a crucial but elusive aspect of writing, tone, across fiction, creative non-fiction, and electronically-generated prose"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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.<br/> <br/> <i>Tone</i>'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. <i>Tone</i>gives us a lively and original way to rethink the practice of literary criticism.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>In scrutinizing and dramatizing the inner workings of tone via the insights of narrative theory, Judith Roof's splendid book takes us where few have traveled before. <i>Tone</i> demonstrates--with vim, vigor, playfulness, and humor--how one might become a better reader, audiator, and imaginary listener of complex texts, whether comic, tragic, gloomy, sanctimonious, confessional, propagandistic, ironic, parodic, or satirical.<br/>Devoney Looser, Foundation Professor of English, Arizona State University, USA<br><br>Judith Roof's utterly original monograph promise to turn 'tone' and 'audiation, ' the procedures of close reading through which tone can be discerningly 'heard, ' into indispensable terms of literary analysis-and powerful obstacles to the protocols of surface reading.<br/>Donald E. Pease, Ted & Helen Geisel Professor of the Humanities, Dartmouth College, USA<br><br>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.<br/>Anne-Laure Tissut, Professor of American Literature, Rouen University, France<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Judith Roof </b>is the William Shakespeare Chair in English at Rice University, USA. She is the author of <i>The Comic Event: Comedic Performance from the 1950s to the Present</i> (Bloomsbury, 2018), <i>What Gender Is, What Gender Does</i> (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 <i>The Big Lebowski</i>, 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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