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. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 33
Página 5
... seem awkward for a time, but they would gradually be domesti- cated and in the end would appear as native as any other words; and the use of words and music together in English song. It was also often thought—eloquence confounded with ...
... seem awkward for a time, but they would gradually be domesti- cated and in the end would appear as native as any other words; and the use of words and music together in English song. It was also often thought—eloquence confounded with ...
Página 16
... seems to be tran- sitive , but if it is , its object is me , a cogent reading since the sea has taken part with the bird in the transformation of boy into bard , one form of expressiveness creating another . But Whit- man almost erases ...
... seems to be tran- sitive , but if it is , its object is me , a cogent reading since the sea has taken part with the bird in the transformation of boy into bard , one form of expressiveness creating another . But Whit- man almost erases ...
Página 19
... seems to move a gentle spirit full of love that keeps saying to the soul: “Sigh.”)26 It is not surprising that one's responsiveness to a single word incurs a suspicion of decadence . “ A style of decadence , ” Havelock Taking Notes / 1.
... seems to move a gentle spirit full of love that keeps saying to the soul: “Sigh.”)26 It is not surprising that one's responsiveness to a single word incurs a suspicion of decadence . “ A style of decadence , ” Havelock Taking Notes / 1.
Página 33
... to subsist in bones, and be but Pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. . . . And therefore restlesse inquietude for the diuturnity of our memories unto present considerations , seems a vanity almost out of date The Latin Factor /
... to subsist in bones, and be but Pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. . . . And therefore restlesse inquietude for the diuturnity of our memories unto present considerations , seems a vanity almost out of date The Latin Factor /
Página 34
Denis Donoghue. present considerations , seems a vanity almost out of date , and superannuated peece of folly . We can- not hope to live so long in our names , as some have done in their persons , one face of Janus holds no proportion ...
Denis Donoghue. present considerations , seems a vanity almost out of date , and superannuated peece of folly . We can- not hope to live so long in our names , as some have done in their persons , one face of Janus holds no proportion ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
Adorno Aeneas agile with temporal Bartleby blue Browne's Cambridge catachresis chapter claim Collected Poems context culture Dante death Derrida Dido Donne English Language Essays expression eyes feeling Finnegans Wake Flaubert Geoffrey Hill gesture gives Guy Davenport Gweneth Hugh Kenner human Hydriotaphia Ibid imagination John John Donne Kenneth Burke King knock Lady Macbeth last line Latin literary Literature live Locke London Madame Bovary means mind modern night Ophelia Oxford passage passion phrase play pleasure poet poetry Professor Hogan prose quence quoted R. P. Blackmur reader reading reason rhetoric rhyme rhythm seems sense sentence Shakespeare silence song without words soul sounds speak speech stanza Stevens story style sweet syllable T. S. Eliot take the train talk temporal intervals things thought tion trans translation tree University Press verbal W. B. Yeats William Empson Woolf writing Yeats