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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... Ideas of Order in Modern American Poetry An Honoured Guest: New Essays on W. B. Yeats (editor, with J. R. Mulryne) The Ordinary Universe: Soundings in Modern Literature Jonathan Swift: A Critical Introduction Emily Dickinson Jonathan ...
... Ideas of Order in Modern American Poetry An Honoured Guest: New Essays on W. B. Yeats (editor, with J. R. Mulryne) The Ordinary Universe: Soundings in Modern Literature Jonathan Swift: A Critical Introduction Emily Dickinson Jonathan ...
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... ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things which they denote. Johnson thought that English had reached its best form of itself—“the wells of English ...
... ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things which they denote. Johnson thought that English had reached its best form of itself—“the wells of English ...
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... ideas . ” 19 How has Shakespeare worded the play ? Further questions I take pleasure in : how does William H. Gass compose a sentence ; how did Guy Davenport make a para- graph ; how did Yeats find that particular way of writing “ No ...
... ideas . ” 19 How has Shakespeare worded the play ? Further questions I take pleasure in : how does William H. Gass compose a sentence ; how did Guy Davenport make a para- graph ; how did Yeats find that particular way of writing “ No ...
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... idea that undergraduates should enjoy three or four years of “ liberal education ” —education in subjects not directed immediately toward jobs — has evidently lost much of its force . In “ On the Teaching of Modern Literature , ” Lionel ...
... idea that undergraduates should enjoy three or four years of “ liberal education ” —education in subjects not directed immediately toward jobs — has evidently lost much of its force . In “ On the Teaching of Modern Literature , ” Lionel ...
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... ideas that might be found in the vicinity of a book, but he was content to think of them as simply making a quiet context for it. How the ideas got into the book, and what happened when they entered, did not trouble him. He advised us ...
... ideas that might be found in the vicinity of a book, but he was content to think of them as simply making a quiet context for it. How the ideas got into the book, and what happened when they entered, did not trouble him. He advised us ...
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