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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... culture as the form in which the nearest simu- lacrum of high culture is accepted by the masses ; the accep- tance of the TV interview as vehicle of serious public speech.24 These cultural practices are well understood , grieved over by ...
... culture as the form in which the nearest simu- lacrum of high culture is accepted by the masses ; the accep- tance of the TV interview as vehicle of serious public speech.24 These cultural practices are well understood , grieved over by ...
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... cultural de- velopment . It is also endlessly transparent , translatable . Noting that equi- vocity is the mark of every culture , Derrida opposes to Husserl's univocity Joyce's equivocation , presumably in the later chapters of Ulysses ...
... cultural de- velopment . It is also endlessly transparent , translatable . Noting that equi- vocity is the mark of every culture , Derrida opposes to Husserl's univocity Joyce's equivocation , presumably in the later chapters of Ulysses ...
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... Culture : Essays on Literature and Learning ( New York : Viking , 1965 ) , 5–6 . 24. On middlebrow culture see John Guillory , “ The Ordeal of Middle- brow Culture , " Transition 67 ( 1995 ) : 87 . 25. Michael Baxandall , Giotto and the ...
... Culture : Essays on Literature and Learning ( New York : Viking , 1965 ) , 5–6 . 24. On middlebrow culture see John Guillory , “ The Ordeal of Middle- brow Culture , " Transition 67 ( 1995 ) : 87 . 25. Michael Baxandall , Giotto and the ...
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