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." |
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... comes to my mind , it makes me feel that nothing else in the whole world matters ; that this is what life amounts to ... come after it . The shadow of yesterday's world is still pleasant for people who take refuge in it , but it will ...
... comes to my mind , it makes me feel that nothing else in the whole world matters ; that this is what life amounts to ... come after it . The shadow of yesterday's world is still pleasant for people who take refuge in it , but it will ...
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... come hither , for stealing out of a French hose : come in , tailor ; here you may roast your goose . ( Knock . ) Knock , knock ; never at quiet ! What are you ? But this place is too cold for hell . I'll devil - porter it no further : I ...
... come hither , for stealing out of a French hose : come in , tailor ; here you may roast your goose . ( Knock . ) Knock , knock ; never at quiet ! What are you ? But this place is too cold for hell . I'll devil - porter it no further : I ...
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... comes from another of Blackmur's experimental citations , two or three paragraphs back , Lu Chi's Wen Fu : " Reason screened and obscured begins to creep forth , thought comes screaming , forced out from the womb . " " 11 George Eliot's ...
... comes from another of Blackmur's experimental citations , two or three paragraphs back , Lu Chi's Wen Fu : " Reason screened and obscured begins to creep forth , thought comes screaming , forced out from the womb . " " 11 George Eliot's ...
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