On EloquenceYale University Press, 2008 M10 1 - 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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... Essays on Irish Literature and Society Selected Essays of R. P. Blackmur (editor) Reading America: Essays on American Literature England, Their England: Commentaries on English Language and Literature America in Theory (editor, with ...
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... essay may be eloquent , but if it is , the eloquence is incidental to its aim . Eloquence , as distinct from rhetoric , has no aim : it is a play of words or other expressive means . It is a gift to be enjoyed in appreciation and ...
... essay may be eloquent , but if it is , the eloquence is incidental to its aim . Eloquence , as distinct from rhetoric , has no aim : it is a play of words or other expressive means . It is a gift to be enjoyed in appreciation and ...
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... essay of Addison and Steele , the gentlemanly report in natural science , and the often - anonymous or pseu- donymous social or political pamphlet . The high style , natural home of eloquence , might still be practiced , but it could ...
... essay of Addison and Steele , the gentlemanly report in natural science , and the often - anonymous or pseu- donymous social or political pamphlet . The high style , natural home of eloquence , might still be practiced , but it could ...
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... essay “ Of National Characters ” he remarked with satisfaction a cooling of the passions in religious conviction : Not to insist upon the great difference between the present possessors of Britain , and those before the Roman conquest ...
... essay “ Of National Characters ” he remarked with satisfaction a cooling of the passions in religious conviction : Not to insist upon the great difference between the present possessors of Britain , and those before the Roman conquest ...
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... essay on eloquence Hume says, without offering many reasons for his recommendation, that it would be good for Britain to restore “the pathetic” and “the sublime,” notable qualities of the old eloquence. “Now, banish the pathetic from ...
... essay on eloquence Hume says, without offering many reasons for his recommendation, that it would be good for Britain to restore “the pathetic” and “the sublime,” notable qualities of the old eloquence. “Now, banish the pathetic from ...
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