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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... expressions.”12 Apparently he thought that British culture was at risk of becoming phlegmatic, despite local disputes of Whig and Tory that kept it at least intermittently awake. No one thought that the language was secure. In the ...
... expressions.”12 Apparently he thought that British culture was at risk of becoming phlegmatic, despite local disputes of Whig and Tory that kept it at least intermittently awake. No one thought that the language was secure. In the ...
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... Expression is peremptory, it is its own reason. I did not realize, teaching the syllabus as Professor Hogan prescribed it, that the quality common to the favored books was eloquence. His chosen writers were stylists, they had ...
... Expression is peremptory, it is its own reason. I did not realize, teaching the syllabus as Professor Hogan prescribed it, that the quality common to the favored books was eloquence. His chosen writers were stylists, they had ...
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... expression or discursive need that we retain Latin words—copia and cursus—for their plenitude. The only comment I recall Professor Hogan making about Browne's style in Hydriotaphia was that he was occasionally imperfect in allowing a ...
... expression or discursive need that we retain Latin words—copia and cursus—for their plenitude. The only comment I recall Professor Hogan making about Browne's style in Hydriotaphia was that he was occasionally imperfect in allowing a ...
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... to have augmented our philosophical diction; and in defence of his uncommon words and expressions, we must consider, that he had uncommon sentiments, and was not content to express in many words that idea for The Latin Factor /
... to have augmented our philosophical diction; and in defence of his uncommon words and expressions, we must consider, that he had uncommon sentiments, and was not content to express in many words that idea for The Latin Factor /
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