On Eloquence - Hardcover

Donoghue, Denis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300125410 ISBN 13: 9780300125412

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2008

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Book by Donoghue Professor Denis

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." . . . A labor of love pressed out of a lifetime of remarkable reading and writing and aided by a prodigious memory that does not just generalize knowledge but preserves its sources." Michael Vander Weele, "Christianity and Literature"--Michael Vander Weele"Christianity and Literature" (02/09/2009)"

Reseña del editor:

"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 live - perhaps this is increasingly the case - in 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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• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0300125410
• ISBN 13: 9780300125412
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224