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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... is eloquence. “Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.”4 Eloquence, as Geoffrey Hartman has said of art and might say of play, “is a re- minder , both forceful and delightful , of unbound energies / Taking Notes chapter.
... is eloquence. “Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.”4 Eloquence, as Geoffrey Hartman has said of art and might say of play, “is a re- minder , both forceful and delightful , of unbound energies / Taking Notes chapter.
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... play of words or other expressive means . It is a gift to be enjoyed in appreciation and practice . The main attribute of eloquence is gratuitousness : its place in the world is to be without place or function , its mode is to be ...
... play of words or other expressive means . It is a gift to be enjoyed in appreciation and practice . The main attribute of eloquence is gratuitousness : its place in the world is to be without place or function , its mode is to be ...
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... play , a novel , or an essay in the New Yorker . Other issues have asserted themselves . “ What we find in the universities , ” as Hartman says , “ is a rising demand for a didactic approach , for advocacy teaching that uses art in a ...
... play , a novel , or an essay in the New Yorker . Other issues have asserted themselves . “ What we find in the universities , ” as Hartman says , “ is a rising demand for a didactic approach , for advocacy teaching that uses art in a ...
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... play ? Further questions I take pleasure in : how does William H. Gass compose a sentence ; how did Guy Davenport make a para- graph ; how did Yeats find that particular way of writing “ No Second Troy ” ; how did Calvino construct ...
... play ? Further questions I take pleasure in : how does William H. Gass compose a sentence ; how did Guy Davenport make a para- graph ; how did Yeats find that particular way of writing “ No Second Troy ” ; how did Calvino construct ...
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... play. Much later I heard of a more profound play of words in the sixth-century version of the Pange lingua by Venantius Fortunatus, which has one stanza celebrating the Cross of the Crucifixion: Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una ...
... play. Much later I heard of a more profound play of words in the sixth-century version of the Pange lingua by Venantius Fortunatus, which has one stanza celebrating the Cross of the Crucifixion: Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una ...
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