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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... merely or completely referential. In “The Convalescent,” a chapter of the third book of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Zarathustra remains in his cave for seven days till he recovers from his collapse. Then he raises him- self, takes up an ...
... merely or completely referential. In “The Convalescent,” a chapter of the third book of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Zarathustra remains in his cave for seven days till he recovers from his collapse. Then he raises him- self, takes up an ...
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... merely pretty pictures, and that it was necessary to study “the practice of eloquence as the practice of power.”8 By about 1580 these several devices were successful to the extent that English was deemed to be just as eloquent as any ...
... merely pretty pictures, and that it was necessary to study “the practice of eloquence as the practice of power.”8 By about 1580 these several devices were successful to the extent that English was deemed to be just as eloquent as any ...
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... merely negotiate the thickets as best he could : eloquence would not help him . There was also the consideration that modern society was too rational to tolerate the standard rhetorical gestures : It may be pretended , that the decline ...
... merely negotiate the thickets as best he could : eloquence would not help him . There was also the consideration that modern society was too rational to tolerate the standard rhetorical gestures : It may be pretended , that the decline ...
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... merely to mod- ern eloquence; that is, to good sense, delivered in proper expres- sions.”12 Apparently he thought that British culture was at risk of becoming phlegmatic, despite local disputes of Whig and Tory that kept it at least ...
... merely to mod- ern eloquence; that is, to good sense, delivered in proper expres- sions.”12 Apparently he thought that British culture was at risk of becoming phlegmatic, despite local disputes of Whig and Tory that kept it at least ...
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