On EloquenceYale University Press, 1. 10. 2008 - 208 strán (strany) 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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... Whisper'd me through the night , and very plainly before daybreak , Lisp'd to me the low and delicious word death , And again death , death , death , death , Hissing melodious , neither like the bird nor like my arous'd child's heart ...
... Whisper'd me through the night , and very plainly before daybreak , Lisp'd to me the low and delicious word death , And again death , death , death , death , Hissing melodious , neither like the bird nor like my arous'd child's heart ...
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... whisper'd me.20 I don't offer a full reading . I note only that the “ dusky demon and brother ” is given earlier in the poem as the mockingbird ; demon and brother because it is not yet clear whether the deliv- ered word death is ...
... whisper'd me.20 I don't offer a full reading . I note only that the “ dusky demon and brother ” is given earlier in the poem as the mockingbird ; demon and brother because it is not yet clear whether the deliv- ered word death is ...
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... Whisper'd intransitive , a version of “ Whisper'd [ to ] me , ” no direct object of the sentence being given . In the last section , the grammar eventually has “ That strong and de- licious word ” as object of whisper'd , so the last ...
... Whisper'd intransitive , a version of “ Whisper'd [ to ] me , ” no direct object of the sentence being given . In the last section , the grammar eventually has “ That strong and de- licious word ” as object of whisper'd , so the last ...
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