On EloquenceYale University Press, 2008 - 199 من الصفحات "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 Donoghue s 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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... Macbeth's mind the image of himself as Thane of Cawdor , and ultimately as king . The first part of their prophecy has come about , so there is a strong presumption in favor of the second . Macbeth and Lady Macbeth have already talked ...
... Macbeth's mind the image of himself as Thane of Cawdor , and ultimately as king . The first part of their prophecy has come about , so there is a strong presumption in favor of the second . Macbeth and Lady Macbeth have already talked ...
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... Macbeth interprets it as a summons to do the deed . In the next scene , Lady Macbeth is alone , having sent the grooms into a drunken stupor . There is a sound : Hark ! Peace ! It was the owl that shriek'd , the fatal bellman , Which ...
... Macbeth interprets it as a summons to do the deed . In the next scene , Lady Macbeth is alone , having sent the grooms into a drunken stupor . There is a sound : Hark ! Peace ! It was the owl that shriek'd , the fatal bellman , Which ...
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... Macbeth and his wife ) was written not only for the mob but for the mob in each of us . We have had a scene of horror and murder , not at all allevi- ated by the domestic crisis between Macbeth and Lady Mac- beth . The murder is ...
... Macbeth and his wife ) was written not only for the mob but for the mob in each of us . We have had a scene of horror and murder , not at all allevi- ated by the domestic crisis between Macbeth and Lady Mac- beth . The murder is ...
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