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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... passages, from Wordsworth and Coleridge, are sufficient to make the point. Wordsworth's preface to the second edition of Lyrical Ballads (1800) resumes many such complaints: For a multitude of causes, unknown to former times, are now ...
... passages, from Wordsworth and Coleridge, are sufficient to make the point. Wordsworth's preface to the second edition of Lyrical Ballads (1800) resumes many such complaints: For a multitude of causes, unknown to former times, are now ...
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... passage is from chapter 22 of Biographia Liter- aria, in which Coleridge considers the defects and merits of Wordsworth's poetry and their particular bearing “in an age of corrupt eloquence”: In prose I doubt whether it be even possible ...
... passage is from chapter 22 of Biographia Liter- aria, in which Coleridge considers the defects and merits of Wordsworth's poetry and their particular bearing “in an age of corrupt eloquence”: In prose I doubt whether it be even possible ...
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... 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 is it?—I listen; Are you whispering it, and have been ...
... 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 is it?—I listen; Are you whispering it, and have been ...
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... passage with students, I'd try to indicate the kind of attention one might pay to the last line and the various forms of the verb to whisper. In the first section, “Are you whispering it?” the verb is transitive, it standing for the ...
... passage with students, I'd try to indicate the kind of attention one might pay to the last line and the various forms of the verb to whisper. In the first section, “Are you whispering it?” the verb is transitive, it standing for the ...
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... passages of it have lodged in my 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 ...
... passages of it have lodged in my 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 ...
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