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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... soul or psyche . Augustine names them , but I don't need to , because he changes his mind on two of them and eventually finds a sixth kind , mainly by thinking that be- hind the five there must be a further , ultimate one to guarantee ...
... soul or psyche . Augustine names them , but I don't need to , because he changes his mind on two of them and eventually finds a sixth kind , mainly by thinking that be- hind the five there must be a further , ultimate one to guarantee ...
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... soul and gains eternal life , according to a convention of elegy and an article of faith in Roman Catholicism . But then there is the something almost being said— “ A soul ramifying and forever / Silent , beyond silence listened for ...
... soul and gains eternal life , according to a convention of elegy and an article of faith in Roman Catholicism . But then there is the something almost being said— “ A soul ramifying and forever / Silent , beyond silence listened for ...
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... soul ? The soul should “ perform its divinely appointed function ” of gov- erning the activities of the body . If it doesn't , it is like a prince in prison . " The concordance of Donne's poems shows how fond he is of the metaphor of ...
... soul ? The soul should “ perform its divinely appointed function ” of gov- erning the activities of the body . If it doesn't , it is like a prince in prison . " The concordance of Donne's poems shows how fond he is of the metaphor of ...
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