{"product_id":"tone-2","title":"Tone","description":"\u003cp\u003eTone 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTone\u003c\/i\u003e’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. \u003ci\u003eTone \u003c\/i\u003egives us a lively and original way to rethink the practice of literary criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55634649481560,"sku":"9781501362576","price":29.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781501362576_b88b8abd-1ece-4265-8db6-5bcc555efa81.jpg?v=1770363047","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/tone-2","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}