On EloquenceYale University Press, 01/10/2008 - 208 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 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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... 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 . Jeremiah J. Hogan was the professor ...
... 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 . Jeremiah J. Hogan was the professor ...
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... Professor Hogan about T. S. Eliot , he said that he was an excellent prose writer . Some years later , I met Professor Hogan walking along Earls- fort Terrace . He asked me whether I was happily settled in my post as an administrative ...
... Professor Hogan about T. S. Eliot , he said that he was an excellent prose writer . Some years later , I met Professor Hogan walking along Earls- fort Terrace . He asked me whether I was happily settled in my post as an administrative ...
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... Professor Hogan reserved to himself . The only defect in my qualifications , I soon learned , was a precocious inclination to publish essays and eventually a book . Professor Hogan let me know , casually through my medievalist colleague ...
... Professor Hogan reserved to himself . The only defect in my qualifications , I soon learned , was a precocious inclination to publish essays and eventually a book . Professor Hogan let me know , casually through my medievalist colleague ...
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... Professor Hogan prescribed it, that the quality common to the favored books was eloquence. His chosen writers were stylists, they had distinc- tive ways of moving among words. I never heard him discuss what made some books eloquent and ...
... Professor Hogan prescribed it, that the quality common to the favored books was eloquence. His chosen writers were stylists, they had distinc- tive ways of moving among words. I never heard him discuss what made some books eloquent and ...
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... Professor Hogan making about Browne's style in Hydriotaphia was that he was occasionally imperfect in allowing a line of verse to in- vade his prose : “ Darkness and light divide the course of time ” was a perfect line of iambic ...
... Professor Hogan making about Browne's style in Hydriotaphia was that he was occasionally imperfect in allowing a line of verse to in- vade his prose : “ Darkness and light divide the course of time ” was a perfect line of iambic ...
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