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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... Criticism renounces its freedom and returns to the missionary position . ” 17 The politics of Yeats's last poems— was he a Fascist ? Conrad versus Chinua Achebe — was Conrad complicit with Imperialism ? T. S. Eliot's anti - Semitism ...
... Criticism renounces its freedom and returns to the missionary position . ” 17 The politics of Yeats's last poems— was he a Fascist ? Conrad versus Chinua Achebe — was Conrad complicit with Imperialism ? T. S. Eliot's anti - Semitism ...
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... Criticism or not. Some are interested. But there are several 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 ...
... Criticism or not. Some are interested. But there are several 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 ...
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... critics, and accepted in practice by multitudes, my- self often (I am sorry to say) included. says Meanwhile, we have our topic, accompanied by a few pre- liminary admonitions. Eloquence, as Michael Baxandall justly of beauty, is a less ...
... critics, and accepted in practice by multitudes, my- self often (I am sorry to say) included. says Meanwhile, we have our topic, accompanied by a few pre- liminary admonitions. Eloquence, as Michael Baxandall justly of beauty, is a less ...
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... critic who rarely felt the need of second thoughts , qualified his disapproval of Browne's style by adverting to the merits that accompanied its defects . He began by thinking it perverse : To have great excellencies , and great faults ...
... critic who rarely felt the need of second thoughts , qualified his disapproval of Browne's style by adverting to the merits that accompanied its defects . He began by thinking it perverse : To have great excellencies , and great faults ...
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