On EloquenceYale University Press, 01 հոկ, 2008 թ. - 208 էջ 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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... King James Bible in 1611, it was impossible to take the English language for granted. The view that eventually prevailed was that English must be brought to a condition of refinement and eloquence at least equal to that of the old and ...
... King James Bible in 1611, it was impossible to take the English language for granted. The view that eventually prevailed was that English must be brought to a condition of refinement and eloquence at least equal to that of the old and ...
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... King Jr. , and Jesse Jackson — these are protected from irony by a residual sense of the emotions of crisis , war , and assassination . Without such sentiments— some of them annually revived , as on Martin Luther King Day — the speeches ...
... King Jr. , and Jesse Jackson — these are protected from irony by a residual sense of the emotions of crisis , war , and assassination . Without such sentiments— some of them annually revived , as on Martin Luther King Day — the speeches ...
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... King Lear ? That is not , in fact , a bad question . The language of the play has much to say about life in terms of price , value , and audits.18 A small moral of its story is that a king should not abdicate― divest himself of his ...
... King Lear ? That is not , in fact , a bad question . The language of the play has much to say about life in terms of price , value , and audits.18 A small moral of its story is that a king should not abdicate― divest himself of his ...
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Denis Donoghue. nothing ” into King Lear ? How did he write the play , and what are the marks of it ? These are questions in aesthetics , which point “ to a value present beyond any appropriation of it by cur- rent utilitarian ideas ...
Denis Donoghue. nothing ” into King Lear ? How did he write the play , and what are the marks of it ? These are questions in aesthetics , which point “ to a value present beyond any appropriation of it by cur- rent utilitarian ideas ...
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... King Lear , which Professor Hogan reserved to himself . The only defect in my qualifications , I soon learned , was a precocious inclination to publish essays and eventually a book . Professor Hogan let me know , casually through my ...
... King Lear , which Professor Hogan reserved to himself . The only defect in my qualifications , I soon learned , was a precocious inclination to publish essays and eventually a book . Professor Hogan let me know , casually through my ...
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