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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... force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind , and , unfitting it for all voluntary exertion , to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor . The most effective of these causes are the great national events which are daily ...
... force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind , and , unfitting it for all voluntary exertion , to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor . The most effective of these causes are the great national events which are daily ...
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... of the classics at a time when it was yielding to the vernacular as the language of progress , the force of Enlight- enment and its ideally univocal style . It has occurred to me , during the past several 12 / Taking Notes.
... of the classics at a time when it was yielding to the vernacular as the language of progress , the force of Enlight- enment and its ideally univocal style . It has occurred to me , during the past several 12 / Taking Notes.
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... forces in our society that work against such an interest. The main one is the premature concentration, even in general education, on the knowledge and capacities neces- sary for entry to professional careers. These careers are crucial ...
... forces in our society that work against such an interest. The main one is the premature concentration, even in general education, on the knowledge and capacities neces- sary for entry to professional careers. These careers are crucial ...
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... force . In “ On the Teaching of Modern Literature , ” Lionel Trilling asked whether the study of the past , precisely because it is the past , might not provide “ that quiet place at which a young man might stand for a few years , at ...
... force . In “ On the Teaching of Modern Literature , ” Lionel Trilling asked whether the study of the past , precisely because it is the past , might not provide “ that quiet place at which a young man might stand for a few years , at ...
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... force of transitions as such in poetry, sudden changes of vocabulary and tone: in Rilke's epitaph, “Rose, oh reiner Widerspruch, Lust,” in James Wright's “Lying in a Ham- mock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota,” the ...
... force of transitions as such in poetry, sudden changes of vocabulary and tone: in Rilke's epitaph, “Rose, oh reiner Widerspruch, Lust,” in James Wright's “Lying in a Ham- mock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota,” the ...
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