On EloquenceYale University Press, 2008 - 199 páginas "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 Donoghue s 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." |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-3 de 35
Página 27
... English , and that the Latin factor accounted for whatever eloquence English could show . Jeremiah J. Hogan was the professor of English and head of the department . In that capacity he prescribed the texts to be read , even those in ...
... English , and that the Latin factor accounted for whatever eloquence English could show . Jeremiah J. Hogan was the professor of English and head of the department . In that capacity he prescribed the texts to be read , even those in ...
Página 32
... English . But he drew a firm line around his references . He saw no reason why , talking about words , he should also be expected to discuss anything else . His wife regularly mentioned , on social occasions , that he intended writing a ...
... English . But he drew a firm line around his references . He saw no reason why , talking about words , he should also be expected to discuss anything else . His wife regularly mentioned , on social occasions , that he intended writing a ...
Página 195
... English , see English language ; estranging disposition of , 133 ; etymology , 30 , 132 ; expectations in , 132 ; expressive , 94 ; figurative , 111 ; foreign phrases inserted into , 131-34 ; Greek , 42 , 80-83 ; Hebrew , 80 , 126 ...
... English , see English language ; estranging disposition of , 133 ; etymology , 30 , 132 ; expectations in , 132 ; expressive , 94 ; figurative , 111 ; foreign phrases inserted into , 131-34 ; Greek , 42 , 80-83 ; Hebrew , 80 , 126 ...
Contenido
CHAPTER | 2 |
The Latin Factor | 21 |
Song Without Words | 44 |
Derechos de autor | |
Otras 2 secciones no mostradas
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
Aeschylus alliteration appear asked become better Blackmur blue body Burke chapter claim comes common Complete context criticism culture death Donne Eliot eloquence English Essays expression eyes face feeling figures force further given gives goes hand hold human ideas imagination instance John keep kind King knock language later Latin least leave light Literature live London look Macbeth matter meaning merely mind moving nature never night object Oxford passage passion phrase play pleasure poem poet poetry possible present question quoted reader reading reason refers relation response rhetoric rhythm seems sense sentence silence song sounds speak speech story style talk tells things thought tion trans translation tree turns understand University Press whole words writing York