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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... thought acts on thought itself . " 5 Dante also has in view St. Paul's account , in the second letter to the Corinthians , of a man ( " whether in the body or out of the body , I cannot tell ; God knoweth " ) who was " caught up into ...
... thought acts on thought itself . " 5 Dante also has in view St. Paul's account , in the second letter to the Corinthians , of a man ( " whether in the body or out of the body , I cannot tell ; God knoweth " ) who was " caught up into ...
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... thought that a creative sense of language might entail using it intrinsi- cally or experimentally would have appalled him : he would have denounced such practices as sophistry . But the sophists , too , had a justifiably catachrestic ...
... thought that a creative sense of language might entail using it intrinsi- cally or experimentally would have appalled him : he would have denounced such practices as sophistry . But the sophists , too , had a justifiably catachrestic ...
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... thought . Yet its elo- quence is direct , chaste , and declarative , checked only by the thought that all eloquence terminates in action.4 Surely not " all . " Martin Luther King's “ Letter from a Birming- ham Jail " is eloquent and ...
... thought . Yet its elo- quence is direct , chaste , and declarative , checked only by the thought that all eloquence terminates in action.4 Surely not " all . " Martin Luther King's “ Letter from a Birming- ham Jail " is eloquent and ...
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The Latin Factor | 21 |
Song Without Words | 44 |
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