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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... never entirely de- tached from things and its responsibility toward them. Alice in Wonderland and Finnegans Wake are nearly detached from them, but not quite: they tell stories, and the stories are related, how- ever deviantly, to the ...
... never entirely de- tached from things and its responsibility toward them. Alice in Wonderland and Finnegans Wake are nearly detached from them, but not quite: they tell stories, and the stories are related, how- ever deviantly, to the ...
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... never lifted up a single stone.” “Ignorant” is a common or garden word, trans- formed to eloquence in Arnold's “Where ignorant armies clash by night.” Context accounts for much in these instances from Arnold, Wordsworth, and the other ...
... never lifted up a single stone.” “Ignorant” is a common or garden word, trans- formed to eloquence in Arnold's “Where ignorant armies clash by night.” Context accounts for much in these instances from Arnold, Wordsworth, and the other ...
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... never again be a Civil War. Party politics was inevitable, but it should be possible to appeal beyond faction, religious conflicts, and the divisions of Whig and Tory to the image of a true-born Englishman, type of national unity, to ...
... never again be a Civil War. Party politics was inevitable, but it should be possible to appeal beyond faction, religious conflicts, and the divisions of Whig and Tory to the image of a true-born Englishman, type of national unity, to ...
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... never raised its tone above argument or common discourse . " " 10 In the essay “ Of National Characters ” he remarked with satisfaction a cooling of the passions in religious conviction : Not to insist upon the great difference between ...
... never raised its tone above argument or common discourse . " " 10 In the essay “ Of National Characters ” he remarked with satisfaction a cooling of the passions in religious conviction : Not to insist upon the great difference between ...
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... never obscure or formless the loves of Catullus , reading from a big book , a quarto with margins . 9 It did not occur to me in Newry that I was in need of “ a passion that is never obscure or formless . ” I was not aware of having any ...
... never obscure or formless the loves of Catullus , reading from a big book , a quarto with margins . 9 It did not occur to me in Newry that I was in need of “ a passion that is never obscure or formless . ” I was not aware of having any ...
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