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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... Poets (editor) The Sovereign Ghost: Studies in Imagination Poems of R. P. Blackmur (editor) Ferocious Alphabets The ... Poet T. S. Eliot Adam's Curse: Reflections on Literature and Religion Speaking of Beauty The American Classics On ...
... Poets (editor) The Sovereign Ghost: Studies in Imagination Poems of R. P. Blackmur (editor) Ferocious Alphabets The ... Poet T. S. Eliot Adam's Curse: Reflections on Literature and Religion Speaking of Beauty The American Classics On ...
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... poets from Wordsworth , Coleridge , Keats , and Hopkins to Geoffrey Hill . It was taken up , too , by philologists and lexi- cographers , the Oxford English Dictionary their most telling achievement in historical recovery . The problem ...
... poets from Wordsworth , Coleridge , Keats , and Hopkins to Geoffrey Hill . It was taken up , too , by philologists and lexi- cographers , the Oxford English Dictionary their most telling achievement in historical recovery . The problem ...
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... poet meant by “Dat panis caelicus figuris terminum”: The heavenly bread has put an end to fig- ures. Many years later, I found the sentence elucidated by Hugh Kenner: The heavenly nourishment ( bread and flesh at once ) The Latin Factor /
... poet meant by “Dat panis caelicus figuris terminum”: The heavenly bread has put an end to fig- ures. Many years later, I found the sentence elucidated by Hugh Kenner: The heavenly nourishment ( bread and flesh at once ) The Latin Factor /
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... Poet's Company , that sounded Latin or were at least exotic in that way , resonant , unabashed , easy to memorize . Flecker's “ The Old Ships ” begins with feelings of expansiveness I wanted to have : I have seen old ships sail like ...
... Poet's Company , that sounded Latin or were at least exotic in that way , resonant , unabashed , easy to memorize . Flecker's “ The Old Ships ” begins with feelings of expansiveness I wanted to have : I have seen old ships sail like ...
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... poets and novelists in our leisure hours , but they did not need to be taught . Nor were there any courses in American literature . I never heard Professor Hogan refer to an American book . He evidently shared the estimate of American ...
... poets and novelists in our leisure hours , but they did not need to be taught . Nor were there any courses in American literature . I never heard Professor Hogan refer to an American book . He evidently shared the estimate of American ...
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