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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... Reading America: Essays on American Literature England, Their England: Commentaries on English Language and Literature America in Theory (editor, with Louis Menand and Leslie Berlowitz) Warrenpoint Being Modern Together The Pure Good of ...
... Reading America: Essays on American Literature England, Their England: Commentaries on English Language and Literature America in Theory (editor, with Louis Menand and Leslie Berlowitz) Warrenpoint Being Modern Together The Pure Good of ...
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... reading one of Whitman's most eloquent passages , the last part of “ Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking ” ( in its final version ) : A word then , ( for I will conquer it , ) The word final , superior to all , Subtle , sent up — what ...
... reading one of Whitman's most eloquent passages , the last part of “ Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking ” ( in its final version ) : A word then , ( for I will conquer it , ) The word final , superior to all , Subtle , sent up — what ...
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... reading . I note only that the “ dusky demon and brother ” is given earlier in the poem as the mockingbird ; demon and brother because it is not yet clear whether the deliv- ered word death is entirely creative or not — though in the ...
... reading . I note only that the “ dusky demon and brother ” is given earlier in the poem as the mockingbird ; demon and brother because it is not yet clear whether the deliv- ered word death is entirely creative or not — though in the ...
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... reading since the sea has taken part with the bird in the transformation of boy into bard , one form of expressiveness creating another . But Whit- man almost erases that reading in the next line by “ Lisp'd to me the low and delicious ...
... reading since the sea has taken part with the bird in the transformation of boy into bard , one form of expressiveness creating another . But Whit- man almost erases that reading in the next line by “ Lisp'd to me the low and delicious ...
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... reading, whether they call it New 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 ...
... reading, whether they call it New 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 ...
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