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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... style of speech and writing predicated on sci- ence and civil conversation as distinct alike from the low style of satire and from the high style of epic and the sublime . In the first years of the eighteenth century , these motives ...
... style of speech and writing predicated on sci- ence and civil conversation as distinct alike from the low style of satire and from the high style of epic and the sublime . In the first years of the eighteenth century , these motives ...
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... style of eloquence , “ calm , elegant , and subtile , which instructed the reason more than affected the passions , and never raised its tone above argument or common discourse . " " 10 In the essay “ Of National Characters ” he ...
... style of eloquence , “ calm , elegant , and subtile , which instructed the reason more than affected the passions , and never raised its tone above argument or common discourse . " " 10 In the essay “ Of National Characters ” he ...
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... style wholly unalloyed by the vicious phraseology which meets us every where , from the sermon to the newspaper ... style of commerce , the translatio studii of the classics at a time when it was yielding to the vernacular as the ...
... style wholly unalloyed by the vicious phraseology which meets us every where , from the sermon to the newspaper ... style of commerce , the translatio studii of the classics at a time when it was yielding to the vernacular as the ...
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... style , form , imagination , fiction , the architecture of a sentence , the bearing of rhyme , pleasure , “ how to do things with words . ” It has become harder to persuade students that these are real places of interest and value in a ...
... style , form , imagination , fiction , the architecture of a sentence , the bearing of rhyme , pleasure , “ how to do things with words . ” It has become harder to persuade students that these are real places of interest and value in a ...
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... style , instead of being natural or transparent , is designedly opaque , but in a special sense : the aim is to produce a language that , instead of communicating something , reveals its own elemental laws and rhythms . " " 22 “ Instead ...
... style , instead of being natural or transparent , is designedly opaque , but in a special sense : the aim is to produce a language that , instead of communicating something , reveals its own elemental laws and rhythms . " " 22 “ Instead ...
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