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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... rhetoric , a means to rhetorical ends . That is not true . Rhetoric has an aim , to move people to do one thing rather than another . Hitler's Mein Kampf is a work of rhetoric . So is The Communist Manifesto . So are Stanley Fish's Is ...
... rhetoric , a means to rhetorical ends . That is not true . Rhetoric has an aim , to move people to do one thing rather than another . Hitler's Mein Kampf is a work of rhetoric . So is The Communist Manifesto . So are Stanley Fish's Is ...
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... rhetorical acts and consequences. It puts rhetoric to shame—persuasion, propaganda, nudging, forcing—for its vul- garity of purpose, its forensic disgusts. Eloquence does not kill people. II The question of the English language, in its ...
... rhetorical acts and consequences. It puts rhetoric to shame—persuasion, propaganda, nudging, forcing—for its vul- garity of purpose, its forensic disgusts. Eloquence does not kill people. II The question of the English language, in its ...
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... best he could : eloquence would not help him . There was also the consideration that modern society was too rational to tolerate the standard rhetorical gestures : It may be pretended , that the decline of eloquence Taking Notes / 7.
... best he could : eloquence would not help him . There was also the consideration that modern society was too rational to tolerate the standard rhetorical gestures : It may be pretended , that the decline of eloquence Taking Notes / 7.
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... rhetorical tricks employed to seduce the judges , and will admit of nothing but solid argument in any debate of ... rhetoric and elocu- tion . They are also peculiarly modest ; which makes them consider it as a piece of arrogance to ...
... rhetorical tricks employed to seduce the judges , and will admit of nothing but solid argument in any debate of ... rhetoric and elocu- tion . They are also peculiarly modest ; which makes them consider it as a piece of arrogance to ...
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... rhetoric . As indeed most of them had . Be- sides , as Hogan remarked , the best way to learn to write good English was by reading good Latin . I agreed , having spent many congenial hours construing Virgil , Horace , Catullus , Livy ...
... rhetoric . As indeed most of them had . Be- sides , as Hogan remarked , the best way to learn to write good English was by reading good Latin . I agreed , having spent many congenial hours construing Virgil , Horace , Catullus , Livy ...
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