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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... thought “ceases to be practice.”2 In some degree, because it is never entirely de- tached from things and its responsibility toward them. Alice in Wonderland and Finnegans Wake are nearly detached from them, but not quite: they tell ...
... thought “ceases to be practice.”2 In some degree, because it is never entirely de- tached from things and its responsibility toward them. Alice in Wonderland and Finnegans Wake are nearly detached from them, but not quite: they tell ...
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... thought and speech; neologisms, new coinages derived from old words or from for- eign words and more useful for new needs: these words would seem awkward for a time, but they would gradually be domesti- cated and in the end would appear ...
... thought and speech; neologisms, new coinages derived from old words or from for- eign words and more useful for new needs: these words would seem awkward for a time, but they would gradually be domesti- cated and in the end would appear ...
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Denis Donoghue. was also often thought—eloquence confounded with rheto- ric—that eloquence was not merely pretty pictures, and that it was necessary to study “the practice of eloquence as the practice of power.”8 By about 1580 these ...
Denis Donoghue. was also often thought—eloquence confounded with rheto- ric—that eloquence was not merely pretty pictures, and that it was necessary to study “the practice of eloquence as the practice of power.”8 By about 1580 these ...
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... thought to be a splendidly expressive language , but some crit- ics of it were disappointed by its public performances . In 1742 David Hume asked , in an essay on eloquence , why modern Britain was so inferior in that regard to the ...
... thought to be a splendidly expressive language , but some crit- ics of it were disappointed by its public performances . In 1742 David Hume asked , in an essay on eloquence , why modern Britain was so inferior in that regard to the ...
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... thought that British culture was at risk of becoming phlegmatic, despite local disputes of Whig and Tory that kept it at least intermittently awake. No one thought that the language was secure. In the preface to A Dictionary of the ...
... thought that British culture was at risk of becoming phlegmatic, despite local disputes of Whig and Tory that kept it at least intermittently awake. No one thought that the language was secure. In the preface to A Dictionary of the ...
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