On EloquenceYale University Press, 1 окт. 2008 г. - Всего страниц: 208 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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... death , And again death , death , death , death , Hissing melodious , neither like the bird nor like my arous'd child's heart , But edging near as privately for me rustling at my feet , Creeping thence steadily up to my ears and laving ...
... death , And again death , death , death , death , Hissing melodious , neither like the bird nor like my arous'd child's heart , But edging near as privately for me rustling at my feet , Creeping thence steadily up to my ears and laving ...
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... death is entirely creative or not — though in the end it is , “ the word up from the waves , ” death being in Whitman's terms a part of life . Twenty lines back , Whitman wondered , in the guise of “ the boy's soul , ” whether the bird ...
... death is entirely creative or not — though in the end it is , “ the word up from the waves , ” death being in Whitman's terms a part of life . Twenty lines back , Whitman wondered , in the guise of “ the boy's soul , ” whether the bird ...
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... death , ” “ song , ” and “ word . ” Reading the passage with students , I'd try to indicate the kind of attention one might pay to the last line and the various forms of the verb to whisper . In the first section , “ Are you whispering ...
... death , ” “ song , ” and “ word . ” Reading the passage with students , I'd try to indicate the kind of attention one might pay to the last line and the various forms of the verb to whisper . In the first section , “ Are you whispering ...
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... death and funeral rites to which Browne ascends was remote from students and teach- ers alike: we were young, we knew we would never die. That left Browne's style, his zest in remembering Latin while writing in English. Most of ...
... death and funeral rites to which Browne ascends was remote from students and teach- ers alike: we were young, we knew we would never die. That left Browne's style, his zest in remembering Latin while writing in English. Most of ...
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... deaths and dyings . The Latin element in the passage I've quoted from Hydriotaphia has mortality in every word : iniquity , oblivion , perpetuity , felicities , durations , the whole empire of things acknowledged along with their fated ...
... deaths and dyings . The Latin element in the passage I've quoted from Hydriotaphia has mortality in every word : iniquity , oblivion , perpetuity , felicities , durations , the whole empire of things acknowledged along with their fated ...
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