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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Denis Donoghue. his pronouncements upon it, his receptions and rejections, and to keep it fixed there indefinitely. Jonathan Swift expressed the same desire. Johnson said: Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the ...
Denis Donoghue. his pronouncements upon it, his receptions and rejections, and to keep it fixed there indefinitely. Jonathan Swift expressed the same desire. Johnson said: Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the ...
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... spirit full of love that keeps saying to the soul: “Sigh.”)26 It is not surprising that one's responsiveness to a single word incurs a suspicion of decadence. “A style of decadence,” Havelock Ellis wrote in an Taking Notes/ 1.
... spirit full of love that keeps saying to the soul: “Sigh.”)26 It is not surprising that one's responsiveness to a single word incurs a suspicion of decadence. “A style of decadence,” Havelock Ellis wrote in an Taking Notes/ 1.
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... keeps eloquence in play, however pathetically, till Antony turns to “my good knave Eros”—a stroke of theatrical genius—and brings the high talk to an end. The trees, like emperors, nod unto the world and mock our eyes with air: they are ...
... keeps eloquence in play, however pathetically, till Antony turns to “my good knave Eros”—a stroke of theatrical genius—and brings the high talk to an end. The trees, like emperors, nod unto the world and mock our eyes with air: they are ...
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