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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... one's excitement arises from the surprise of finding something said so barely yet so definitively . In Eliot's “ Marina ” no one could have anticipated the “ new ships ” in “ The awakened , lips parted , the hope , the new ships ...
... one's excitement arises from the surprise of finding something said so barely yet so definitively . In Eliot's “ Marina ” no one could have anticipated the “ new ships ” in “ The awakened , lips parted , the hope , the new ships ...
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... one's choices among things to be bought, the shop- ping mall offering itself as Universal Exhibition; the triumph of middlebrow culture as the form in which the nearest simu- lacrum of high culture is accepted by the masses; the accep ...
... one's choices among things to be bought, the shop- ping mall offering itself as Universal Exhibition; the triumph of middlebrow culture as the form in which the nearest simu- lacrum of high culture is accepted by the masses; the accep ...
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... one's own funeral . ” 16 Meanwhile Browne savored the 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 ...
... one's own funeral . ” 16 Meanwhile Browne savored the 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 ...
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