Tone

by Kate Zambreno and Sofia Samatar

Tone is a collaborative study of literary tone, a notoriously challenging and slippery topic for criticism. Both granular and global, infusing a text with feeling, tone is so difficult to pin down that responses to it often take the vague form of "I know it when I see it."

In Tone, a cooperative authorial voice under the name of the Committee to Investigate Atmosphere begins from the premise that tone is relational, belonging...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023121121X
• ISBN13: 9780231211215
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.5"