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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.
Contents
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
