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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... mind , and , unfitting it for all voluntary exertion , to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor . The most effective of these causes are the great national events which are daily taking place , and the increasing accumu- lation ...
... mind , and , unfitting it for all voluntary exertion , to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor . The most effective of these causes are the great national events which are daily taking place , and the increasing accumu- lation ...
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... mind that ordains them. Expression is peremptory, it is its own reason. I did not realize, teaching the syllabus as Professor Hogan prescribed it, that the quality common to the favored books was eloquence. His chosen writers were ...
... mind that ordains them. Expression is peremptory, it is its own reason. I did not realize, teaching the syllabus as Professor Hogan prescribed it, that the quality common to the favored books was eloquence. His chosen writers were ...
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... mind and can be called up at will. “Some being of the opinion of Thales, that water was the originall of all things, thought it most equall to submit into the principle of putrefaction, and conclude in a moist relentment.” The sen ...
... mind and can be called up at will. “Some being of the opinion of Thales, that water was the originall of all things, thought it most equall to submit into the principle of putrefaction, and conclude in a moist relentment.” The sen ...
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Դուք հասել եք այս գրքի դիտումների առավելագույն քանակին.
Դուք հասել եք այս գրքի դիտումների առավելագույն քանակին.
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Դուք հասել եք այս գրքի դիտումների առավելագույն քանակին.
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