Thomas H. Ford

Thomas H. Ford is a Senior Lecturer in English at La Trobe University. His recent publications include Barron Field in New South Wales (Melbourne UP, 2023), which he co-authored with Justin Clemens, and How to Read a Poem: Seven Steps (Routledge, 2021).

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Critic Watch Review: Thomas H. Fordon tone talk

Tone: Writing and the Sound of Feeling by Judith Roof Bloomsbury Academic
October 2020
288 pp
ISBN: 9781501362569
Tone by Sofia Samatar and Kate Zambreno Columbia University Press
November 2023
144 pp
ISBN: 9780231211215

No Singing Along!

What do critics mean by tone? Is it a rhetorical attitude or an atmospheric quality? In his review of two recent studies, Thomas H. Ford shows how writing about tone sets the tone of a broader debate about the uses of literary criticism.