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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... criticism a site of trouble , such as that described by John Guillory three or four years ago : I do agree that literary criticism is a curiously troubled discipline today , and that part of its trouble is directly related to the ...
... criticism a site of trouble , such as that described by John Guillory three or four years ago : I do agree that literary criticism is a curiously troubled discipline today , and that part of its trouble is directly related to the ...
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... criticism is at least one of the purposes of criticism . Guillory went on to say that the " turn to the political ” in lit- erary criticism is one way that critics have of " doing what they have always done , which is to neutralize ...
... criticism is at least one of the purposes of criticism . Guillory went on to say that the " turn to the political ” in lit- erary criticism is one way that critics have of " doing what they have always done , which is to neutralize ...
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... Criticism of Dante Alighieri ( Lincoln : University of Ne- braska Press , 1973 ) , 110. ( The authenticity of this letter is still in dispute . ) 7. Hilary of Poitiers , De Trinitate , lib . 2 , n5 , quoted in Walter J. Ong , " Wit and ...
... Criticism of Dante Alighieri ( Lincoln : University of Ne- braska Press , 1973 ) , 110. ( The authenticity of this letter is still in dispute . ) 7. Hilary of Poitiers , De Trinitate , lib . 2 , n5 , quoted in Walter J. Ong , " Wit and ...
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Song Without Words | 44 |
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