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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... Leaves of Grass is a phenome- nology of styles achieving themselves while at the same time reflecting on their processes. The poems are autobiographical; a self—at any moment shadowy and equivocal—commits itself to its determination ...
... Leaves of Grass is a phenome- nology of styles achieving themselves while at the same time reflecting on their processes. The poems are autobiographical; a self—at any moment shadowy and equivocal—commits itself to its determination ...
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... leave the order when he chose. So long as he remained, he lived in a community of his colleagues and was bound by vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. The Congregation of the Christian Brothers was founded by Edmund Ignatius Rice ...
... leave the order when he chose. So long as he remained, he lived in a community of his colleagues and was bound by vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. The Congregation of the Christian Brothers was founded by Edmund Ignatius Rice ...
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... leaving certificate examination in at least five subjects , including Latin , English , and Irish . Or you could take the matriculation examination of the N.U.I. on the same terms . Latin was obligatory , whatever qualifying exami ...
... leaving certificate examination in at least five subjects , including Latin , English , and Irish . Or you could take the matriculation examination of the N.U.I. on the same terms . Latin was obligatory , whatever qualifying exami ...
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... leaves a colt was foaled . ” 11 ) Dr. O'Meara was also ready to re- spect my adolescent prejudice in thinking that Latin was more eloquent than English , and that the Latin factor accounted for whatever eloquence English could show ...
... leaves a colt was foaled . ” 11 ) Dr. O'Meara was also ready to re- spect my adolescent prejudice in thinking that Latin was more eloquent than English , and that the Latin factor accounted for whatever eloquence English could show ...
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... leaving not a rack behind. Anglo-Saxon bears witness to their dissolution, “as water is in water.” I think the dramatic transitions from Latin to Anglo-Saxon alerted me to the force of transitions as such in poetry, sudden changes of ...
... leaving not a rack behind. Anglo-Saxon bears witness to their dissolution, “as water is in water.” I think the dramatic transitions from Latin to Anglo-Saxon alerted me to the force of transitions as such in poetry, sudden changes of ...
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