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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... asked , in an essay on eloquence , why modern Britain was so inferior in that regard to the Greece of Demos- thenes and the Rome of Cicero . No member of the two houses of Parliament , he claimed , had attained “ much beyond a medi ...
... asked , in an essay on eloquence , why modern Britain was so inferior in that regard to the Greece of Demos- thenes and the Rome of Cicero . No member of the two houses of Parliament , he claimed , had attained “ much beyond a medi ...
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... asked whether the study of the past , precisely because it is the past , might not provide “ that quiet place at which a young man might stand for a few years , at least a little beyond the competing attitudes and generalizations of the ...
... asked whether the study of the past , precisely because it is the past , might not provide “ that quiet place at which a young man might stand for a few years , at least a little beyond the competing attitudes and generalizations of the ...
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... asked him why Livy , reporting that some general had pitched his camp , sometimes wrote “ castra posuit ” and sometimes “ posuit castra , ” he smiled the question aside . It hadn't yet struck me that Caesar always wrote “ cas- tra ...
... asked him why Livy , reporting that some general had pitched his camp , sometimes wrote “ castra posuit ” and sometimes “ posuit castra , ” he smiled the question aside . It hadn't yet struck me that Caesar always wrote “ cas- tra ...
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... asked to explain further the interrogative forms ne , nonne , and utrum , the difference between subjective and objective genitives , and why in Latin but not in English the main verb was so often held back to the end of the sentence ...
... asked to explain further the interrogative forms ne , nonne , and utrum , the difference between subjective and objective genitives , and why in Latin but not in English the main verb was so often held back to the end of the sentence ...
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... asked me whether I was happily settled in my post as an administrative officer in the Civil Service . When I told him that I did not regard myself as especially qualified for the Civil Service , he offered me a job as an assistant ...
... asked me whether I was happily settled in my post as an administrative officer in the Civil Service . When I told him that I did not regard myself as especially qualified for the Civil Service , he offered me a job as an assistant ...
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