On EloquenceYale University Press, 2008 M10 1 - 208 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 Donoghues 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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Denis Donoghue. Also. by. Denis. Donoghue. The Third Voice: Modern British and American Verse Drama Connoisseurs of Chaos ... English Language and Literature America in Theory (editor, with Louis Menand and Leslie Berlowitz) Warrenpoint Being ...
Denis Donoghue. Also. by. Denis. Donoghue. The Third Voice: Modern British and American Verse Drama Connoisseurs of Chaos ... English Language and Literature America in Theory (editor, with Louis Menand and Leslie Berlowitz) Warrenpoint Being ...
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... English language, in its bearing upon elo- quence, theory and ideology, did not arise until well into the sixteenth century. Till then, native speakers of the language and scholars of it alike agreed that English was rude, if not ...
... English language, in its bearing upon elo- quence, theory and ideology, did not arise until well into the sixteenth century. Till then, native speakers of the language and scholars of it alike agreed that English was rude, if not ...
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... language commendable in it selfe, than gay with the feathers of straunge birdes.”7 Two, the modern attitude: you ... English language for granted. The view that eventually prevailed was that English must be brought to a condition of ...
... language commendable in it selfe, than gay with the feathers of straunge birdes.”7 Two, the modern attitude: you ... English language for granted. The view that eventually prevailed was that English must be brought to a condition of ...
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... English was deemed to be just as eloquent as any other language. The fact that a language could be used to serve evil ends as well as good ones was for the most part ignored.9 But as soon as the language reached perfection, inevitably ...
... English was deemed to be just as eloquent as any other language. The fact that a language could be used to serve evil ends as well as good ones was for the most part ignored.9 But as soon as the language reached perfection, inevitably ...
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... English was thought to be a splendidly expressive language , but some crit- ics of it were disappointed by its public performances . In 1742 David Hume asked , in an essay on eloquence , why modern Britain was so inferior in that regard ...
... English was thought to be a splendidly expressive language , but some crit- ics of it were disappointed by its public performances . In 1742 David Hume asked , in an essay on eloquence , why modern Britain was so inferior in that regard ...
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