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. |
From inside the book
Արդյունքներ 42–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
Էջ
... Poetry An Honoured Guest: New Essays on W. B. Yeats (editor, with J. R. Mulryne) The Ordinary Universe: Soundings in ... Poets (editor) The Sovereign Ghost: Studies in Imagination Poems of R. P. Blackmur (editor) Ferocious Alphabets The ...
... Poetry An Honoured Guest: New Essays on W. B. Yeats (editor, with J. R. Mulryne) The Ordinary Universe: Soundings in ... Poets (editor) The Sovereign Ghost: Studies in Imagination Poems of R. P. Blackmur (editor) Ferocious Alphabets The ...
Էջ 10
... poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they might be expressed. But such perfection cannot be held. Changes ...
... poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they might be expressed. But such perfection cannot be held. Changes ...
Էջ 12
... poetry and their particular bearing “ in an age of corrupt eloquence ” : In prose I doubt whether it be even ... poets from Wordsworth , Coleridge , Keats , and Hopkins to Geoffrey Hill . It was taken up , too , by philologists and lexi ...
... poetry and their particular bearing “ in an age of corrupt eloquence ” : In prose I doubt whether it be even ... poets from Wordsworth , Coleridge , Keats , and Hopkins to Geoffrey Hill . It was taken up , too , by philologists and lexi ...
Էջ 17
... poetry is autobiographical, since it is adjectival to his sense of himself, however that is to be construed in terms of process and change. The lines “communicate something,” but the something is not accorded independent existence, as ...
... poetry is autobiographical, since it is adjectival to his sense of himself, however that is to be construed in terms of process and change. The lines “communicate something,” but the something is not accorded independent existence, as ...
Էջ 23
... poet meant by “Dat panis caelicus figuris terminum”: The heavenly bread has put an end to fig- ures. Many years later, I found the sentence elucidated by Hugh Kenner: The heavenly nourishment ( bread and flesh at once ) The Latin Factor /
... poet meant by “Dat panis caelicus figuris terminum”: The heavenly bread has put an end to fig- ures. Many years later, I found the sentence elucidated by Hugh Kenner: The heavenly nourishment ( bread and flesh at once ) The Latin Factor /
Այլ խմբագրություններ - View all
Common terms and phrases
Adorno Aeneas agile with temporal Bartleby blue Browne's Cambridge catachresis chapter claim Collected Poems context culture Dante death Derrida Dido Donne English Language Essays expression eyes feeling Finnegans Wake Flaubert Geoffrey Hill gesture gives Guy Davenport Gweneth Hugh Kenner human Hydriotaphia Ibid imagination John John Donne Kenneth Burke King knock Lady Macbeth last line Latin literary Literature live Locke London Madame Bovary means mind modern night Ophelia Oxford passage passion phrase play pleasure poet poetry Professor Hogan prose quence quoted R. P. Blackmur reader reading reason rhetoric rhyme rhythm seems sense sentence Shakespeare silence song without words soul sounds speak speech stanza Stevens story style sweet syllable T. S. Eliot take the train talk temporal intervals things thought tion trans translation tree University Press verbal W. B. Yeats William Empson Woolf writing Yeats