On EloquenceYale University Press, 01/10/2008 - 208 páginas On Eloquence questions the common assumption that eloquence is merely a subset of rhetoric, a means toward a rhetorical end. Denis Donoghue, an eminent and prolific critic of the English language, holds that this assumption is erroneous. While rhetoric is the use of language to persuade people to do one thing rather than another, Donoghue maintains that eloquence is gratuitous, ideally autonomous, in speech and writing an upsurge of creative vitality for its own sake. He offers many instances of eloquence in words, and suggests the forms our appreciation of them should take. Donoghue argues persuasively that eloquence matters, that we should indeed care about it. Because we should care about any instances of freedom, independence, creative force, sprezzatura, he says, especially when we liveperhaps this is increasingly the casein a culture of the same, featuring official attitudes, stereotypes of the officially enforced values, sedated language, a politics of pacification. A noteworthy addition to Donoghues long-term project to reclaim a disinterested appreciation of literature as literature, this volume is a wise and pleasurable meditation on eloquence, its unique ability to move or give pleasure, and its intrinsic value. |
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... culture of the same . We value it as a sign of such freedom as we are ever likely to enjoy . It is commonly assumed that eloquence is a form or a subset of rhetoric , a means to rhetorical ends . That is not true . Rhetoric has an aim ...
... culture of the same . We value it as a sign of such freedom as we are ever likely to enjoy . It is commonly assumed that eloquence is a form or a subset of rhetoric , a means to rhetorical ends . That is not true . Rhetoric has an aim ...
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... Culture as the highest value to which it was possible to aspire; the presentation of manners as more persuasive than laws; the privileging of middle-class values and aspirations; the gradual extension of suffrage to include more and ...
... Culture as the highest value to which it was possible to aspire; the presentation of manners as more persuasive than laws; the privileging of middle-class values and aspirations; the gradual extension of suffrage to include more and ...
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... culture was at risk of becoming phlegmatic, despite local disputes of Whig and Tory that kept it at least intermittently awake. No one thought that the language was secure. In the preface to A Dictionary of the English Language (1755) ...
... culture was at risk of becoming phlegmatic, despite local disputes of Whig and Tory that kept it at least intermittently awake. No one thought that the language was secure. In the preface to A Dictionary of the English Language (1755) ...
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... cultural level of the people to a degree “polished by arts, and classed by subordination, where one part of the community is sustained and accommodated by the labour of the other”; from the mixture of two languages, such that the people ...
... cultural level of the people to a degree “polished by arts, and classed by subordination, where one part of the community is sustained and accommodated by the labour of the other”; from the mixture of two languages, such that the people ...
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... Culture . Nadine Gordimer and the New Africa . The Printing Press and the Rise of Nationalism . These and many similar topics are in high standing in departments of English , but I am not much inter- ested in them , because they lead me ...
... Culture . Nadine Gordimer and the New Africa . The Printing Press and the Rise of Nationalism . These and many similar topics are in high standing in departments of English , but I am not much inter- ested in them , because they lead me ...
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