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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... passion or fancy . I may , perhaps , be allowed to add that the people in general are not remarkable for delicacy of ... passions , and never raised its tone above argument or common discourse . " 10 In the essay " Of National Characters ...
... passion or fancy . I may , perhaps , be allowed to add that the people in general are not remarkable for delicacy of ... passions , and never raised its tone above argument or common discourse . " 10 In the essay " Of National Characters ...
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... passion that is never obscure or formless . " I was not aware of having any passions , except the one in favor of being alive . But otherwise Neville's sentiments were as distant from me as the moon : I could not have afforded them . In ...
... passion that is never obscure or formless . " I was not aware of having any passions , except the one in favor of being alive . But otherwise Neville's sentiments were as distant from me as the moon : I could not have afforded them . In ...
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... passion for the possibility lying defeated , as impossibility , in the midst of reality . " Why the passion was an exaggerated one , Adorno does not say . “ Like all thought worthy of the name , Bloch's thrives on the edge of failure ...
... passion for the possibility lying defeated , as impossibility , in the midst of reality . " Why the passion was an exaggerated one , Adorno does not say . “ Like all thought worthy of the name , Bloch's thrives on the edge of failure ...
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The Latin Factor | 21 |
Song Without Words | 44 |
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