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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... things: I And out of the ground the lord god formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them; and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name ...
... things: I And out of the ground the lord god formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them; and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name ...
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... things which are eternally apart? But all sounds make us forget this; how lovely it is that we forget. . . . Are not words and sounds given to things so that man can renew himself through things? Speech is a beautiful folly: by means of ...
... things which are eternally apart? But all sounds make us forget this; how lovely it is that we forget. . . . Are not words and sounds given to things so that man can renew himself through things? Speech is a beautiful folly: by means of ...
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... thing rather than another . Hitler's Mein Kampf is a work of rhetoric . So is The Communist Manifesto . So are Stanley Fish's Is There a Text in This Class ? and Jacques Derrida's De la grammatologie . So is every papal encyc- lical ...
... thing rather than another . Hitler's Mein Kampf is a work of rhetoric . So is The Communist Manifesto . So are Stanley Fish's Is There a Text in This Class ? and Jacques Derrida's De la grammatologie . So is every papal encyc- lical ...
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... thing to see. Wordsworth's “Michael” nearly ends: “And never lifted up a single stone.” “Ignorant” is a common or garden word, trans- formed to eloquence in Arnold's “Where ignorant armies clash by night.” Context accounts for much in ...
... thing to see. Wordsworth's “Michael” nearly ends: “And never lifted up a single stone.” “Ignorant” is a common or garden word, trans- formed to eloquence in Arnold's “Where ignorant armies clash by night.” Context accounts for much in ...
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Denis Donoghue. thing, was poor but honest, a serviceable language for use in common life and local relations, even if it was limited to those practices. At least it kept itself free from the sophistications of Europe; it did not need to ...
Denis Donoghue. thing, was poor but honest, a serviceable language for use in common life and local relations, even if it was limited to those practices. At least it kept itself free from the sophistications of Europe; it did not need to ...
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