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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... phrases of policy, war, and navigation from Raleigh; the dia- lect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which ...
... phrases of policy, war, and navigation from Raleigh; the dia- lect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which ...
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... phrase “ trash triumphant . ” The second passage is from chapter 22 of Biographia Liter- aria , in which Coleridge considers the defects and merits of Wordsworth's poetry and their particular bearing “ in an age of corrupt eloquence ...
... phrase “ trash triumphant . ” The second passage is from chapter 22 of Biographia Liter- aria , in which Coleridge considers the defects and merits of Wordsworth's poetry and their particular bearing “ in an age of corrupt eloquence ...
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... phrase or two: “Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love” (Song of Sol. 2:5). Sometimes it breaks forth in a single word. Dante's “Tanto gentile” has as its context the other poems and the prose of the Vita ...
... phrase or two: “Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love” (Song of Sol. 2:5). Sometimes it breaks forth in a single word. Dante's “Tanto gentile” has as its context the other poems and the prose of the Vita ...
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... phrase , and the phrase to give place to the independence of the word . ” 27 I can't dispel that suspicion in general ; a feeling for eloquence is likely to be gratified by sudden gestures , flares of spirit , words breaking free from ...
... phrase , and the phrase to give place to the independence of the word . ” 27 I can't dispel that suspicion in general ; a feeling for eloquence is likely to be gratified by sudden gestures , flares of spirit , words breaking free from ...
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