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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... things which are eternally apart ? But all sounds make us forget this ; how lovely it is that we forget .... Are not words and sounds given to things so that man can renew himself through things ? Speech is a beautiful folly : by means ...
... things which are eternally apart ? But all sounds make us forget this ; how lovely it is that we forget .... Are not words and sounds given to things so that man can renew himself through things ? Speech is a beautiful folly : by means ...
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... thing or non- thing to which it refers . Herone has been trying to sum things up : First , there is man the " economic animal , " in the strictly biological sense , such a creature of ecologi- cal balance and geophysical necessities as ...
... thing or non- thing to which it refers . Herone has been trying to sum things up : First , there is man the " economic animal , " in the strictly biological sense , such a creature of ecologi- cal balance and geophysical necessities as ...
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... things charmed people " into notions far remote from the truth of things . " 19 His sense of " the truth of things " was penurious , he did not willingly allow that the imagination left to its freedom might be engaged in serious ...
... things charmed people " into notions far remote from the truth of things . " 19 His sense of " the truth of things " was penurious , he did not willingly allow that the imagination left to its freedom might be engaged in serious ...
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