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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... 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 whom party was a sec- ondary consideration. Religious observance might 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 whom party was a sec- ondary consideration. Religious observance might be ...
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... possible to preserve our style wholly unalloyed by the vicious phraseology which meets us every where , from the sermon to the newspaper , from the harangue of the legislator to the speech from the convivial chair , announcing a toast ...
... possible to preserve our style wholly unalloyed by the vicious phraseology which meets us every where , from the sermon to the newspaper , from the harangue of the legislator to the speech from the convivial chair , announcing a toast ...
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... possible—ideally forever—the temptation to “go outside” the poems in search of political, so- cial, sexual, or other intimations. Leaves of Grass is a phenome- nology of styles achieving themselves while at the same time reflecting on ...
... possible—ideally forever—the temptation to “go outside” the poems in search of political, so- cial, sexual, or other intimations. Leaves of Grass is a phenome- nology of styles achieving themselves while at the same time reflecting on ...
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... possible . Antony is at once dazed and idle , his occupation gone . As Frank Kermode has noted , rack means drifting cloud , and dis- limns means what an artist doesn't do , the cloud — itself bro- ken — breaks the form instead of ...
... possible . Antony is at once dazed and idle , his occupation gone . As Frank Kermode has noted , rack means drifting cloud , and dis- limns means what an artist doesn't do , the cloud — itself bro- ken — breaks the form instead of ...
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