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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... question of the English language, in its bearing upon elo- quence, theory and ideology, did not arise until well into the sixteenth century. Till then, native speakers of the language and scholars of it alike agreed that English was ...
... question of the English language, in its bearing upon elo- quence, theory and ideology, did not arise until well into the sixteenth century. Till then, native speakers of the language and scholars of it alike agreed that English was ...
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... question , too : There are some circumstances in the English tem- per and genius , which are disadvantageous to the progress of eloquence , and render all attempts of that kind more dangerous and difficult among them , than among any ...
... question , too : There are some circumstances in the English tem- per and genius , which are disadvantageous to the progress of eloquence , and render all attempts of that kind more dangerous and difficult among them , than among any ...
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... question . The language of the play has much to say about life in terms of price , value , and audits.18 A small moral of its story is that a king should not abdicate― divest himself of his holdings — unless he has to , and if he ...
... question . The language of the play has much to say about life in terms of price , value , and audits.18 A small moral of its story is that a king should not abdicate― divest himself of his holdings — unless he has to , and if he ...
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... questions in aesthetics , which point “ to a value present beyond any appropriation of it by cur- rent utilitarian ideas . ” 19 How has Shakespeare worded the play ? Further questions I take pleasure in : how does William H. Gass ...
... questions in aesthetics , which point “ to a value present beyond any appropriation of it by cur- rent utilitarian ideas . ” 19 How has Shakespeare worded the play ? Further questions I take pleasure in : how does William H. Gass ...
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... question of sending him to one of the Christian Brothers' schools in Dublin arises, but his mother and father are agreed in disliking the notion: Christian brothers be damned! said Mr Dedalus. Is it with Paddy Stink and Mickey Mud? No ...
... question of sending him to one of the Christian Brothers' schools in Dublin arises, but his mother and father are agreed in disliking the notion: Christian brothers be damned! said Mr Dedalus. Is it with Paddy Stink and Mickey Mud? No ...
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