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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... Speech is a beautiful folly: by means of it, man dances over all things. How sweet is all speech; [how sweet] all the illusion of sounds! With sounds our love dances on many-coloured rainbows.3 The dancing of speech is eloquence: the ...
... Speech is a beautiful folly: by means of it, man dances over all things. How sweet is all speech; [how sweet] all the illusion of sounds! With sounds our love dances on many-coloured rainbows.3 The dancing of speech is eloquence: the ...
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... speech in Parliament or Congress . A speech or an essay may be eloquent , but if it is , the eloquence is incidental to its aim . Eloquence , as distinct from rhetoric , has no aim : it is a play of words or other expressive means . It ...
... speech in Parliament or Congress . A speech or an essay may be eloquent , but if it is , the eloquence is incidental to its aim . Eloquence , as distinct from rhetoric , has no aim : it is a play of words or other expressive means . It ...
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... speech; neologisms, new coinages derived from old words or from for- eign words and more useful for new needs: these words would seem awkward for a time, but they would gradually be domesti- cated and in the end would appear as native ...
... speech; neologisms, new coinages derived from old words or from for- eign words and more useful for new needs: these words would seem awkward for a time, but they would gradually be domesti- cated and in the end would appear as native ...
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... speech. After the Civil War, the Restoration of Charles II, the Revolution of 1688–89 that in- stalled William of Orange on the throne, and the Act of Settle- ment (1701), a new motive arose that had considerable bearing on the status ...
... speech. After the Civil War, the Restoration of Charles II, the Revolution of 1688–89 that in- stalled William of Orange on the throne, and the Act of Settle- ment (1701), a new motive arose that had considerable bearing on the status ...
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... speech and writing predicated on sci- ence and civil conversation as distinct alike from the low style of satire and ... speeches of Winston Churchill , the high eloquence of John F. Kennedy , Martin Luther King Jr. , and Jesse Jackson ...
... speech and writing predicated on sci- ence and civil conversation as distinct alike from the low style of satire and ... speeches of Winston Churchill , the high eloquence of John F. Kennedy , Martin Luther King Jr. , and Jesse Jackson ...
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