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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... syllables or spoken stresses but by affilia- tions of breath and cadence . As in music , there are motifs , three in particular , “ death , ” “ song , ” and “ word . ” Reading the passage with students , I'd try to indicate the kind of ...
... syllables or spoken stresses but by affilia- tions of breath and cadence . As in music , there are motifs , three in particular , “ death , ” “ song , ” and “ word . ” Reading the passage with students , I'd try to indicate the kind of ...
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... syllable from Deum to Deam would render the response disgraceful , a change effected by Stephen Dedalus , at the cost of ruining the pronoun , in the “ Circe ” chapter when he cries out to Lynch's “ Where are we going ? ” : “ Lecherous ...
... syllable from Deum to Deam would render the response disgraceful , a change effected by Stephen Dedalus , at the cost of ruining the pronoun , in the “ Circe ” chapter when he cries out to Lynch's “ Where are we going ? ” : “ Lecherous ...
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... syllables of his Latin — perpetuation , duration , diuturnity , superannuated — and enjoyed the eloquence of his aphorisms— “ Life is a pure flame , and we live by an invisible Sun within us ” —his rhetorical ques- tions and exempla ...
... syllables of his Latin — perpetuation , duration , diuturnity , superannuated — and enjoyed the eloquence of his aphorisms— “ Life is a pure flame , and we live by an invisible Sun within us ” —his rhetorical ques- tions and exempla ...
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