"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 ...
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"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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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Glued binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 199 p. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2007016897 Type of material Book Personal name Donoghue, Denis. Main title On eloquence / Denis Donoghue. Published/Created New Haven: Yale University Press, c2008. Description vii, 199 p.; 22 cm. ISBN 9780300125412 (alk. paper) 0300125410 (alk. paper) LC classification PN4129.15. D66 2008 LC Subjects Oratory. Eloquence. Eloquence in literature. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-189) and index. Dewey class no. 808.5/1 National bib no. GBA785949 National bib agency no. 014199546 Other system no. (OCoLC)ocn123818283 (OCoLC)123818283
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