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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... reason in the United States after the Civil War, it was crucial to appeal beyond the conflicts of North and South to the sentiment of “the American people,” an entity hard to define then as now.) In Britain the attempt to adumbrate a ...
... reason in the United States after the Civil War, it was crucial to appeal beyond the conflicts of North and South to the sentiment of “the American people,” an entity hard to define then as now.) In Britain the attempt to adumbrate a ...
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... reason to public assemblies , or attempt to guide them by passion or fancy . I may , perhaps , be allowed to add that the people in general are not remarkable for delicacy of taste , or for sensibility to the charms of the Muses ...
... reason to public assemblies , or attempt to guide them by passion or fancy . I may , perhaps , be allowed to add that the people in general are not remarkable for delicacy of taste , or for sensibility to the charms of the Muses ...
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... reasons for his recommendation, that it would be good for Britain to restore “the pathetic” and “the sublime,” notable qualities of the old eloquence. “Now, banish the pathetic from public discourses, and you reduce the speakers merely ...
... reasons for his recommendation, that it would be good for Britain to restore “the pathetic” and “the sublime,” notable qualities of the old eloquence. “Now, banish the pathetic from public discourses, and you reduce the speakers merely ...
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... smiled the question aside . It hadn't yet struck me that Caesar always wrote “ cas- tra posuit , ” never “ posuit castra ” and that there might be some reason , unknown to me , for his postponing the 26 / The Latin Factor.
... smiled the question aside . It hadn't yet struck me that Caesar always wrote “ cas- tra posuit , ” never “ posuit castra ” and that there might be some reason , unknown to me , for his postponing the 26 / The Latin Factor.
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Denis Donoghue. reason , unknown to me , for his postponing the subject of the sentence till the end , as in “ Non respuit condicionem Caesar ” in De Bello Gallico . 10 Dr. O'Meara was much more approachable than Professor Semple . He ...
Denis Donoghue. reason , unknown to me , for his postponing the subject of the sentence till the end , as in “ Non respuit condicionem Caesar ” in De Bello Gallico . 10 Dr. O'Meara was much more approachable than Professor Semple . He ...
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