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- EX-LIBRARY
- Book Title
- On Eloquence Hardcover Denis Donoghue
- ISBN
- 9780300125412
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-10
0300125410
ISBN-13
9780300125412
eBay Product ID (ePID)
60080380
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Publication Name
On Eloquence
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Subject
Speech, General, Rhetoric
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.7 in
Item Weight
12.8 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2007-016897
Reviews
"In this book, Donoghue continues his case for reading for aesthetic pleasure rather than to have our political values endorsed or abused. This is an argument that needs to be made, and it is all the more crucial that a critic of Donoghue's stature make it."-David Rosen, Trinity College, "Donoghue is a formidably gifted critic whose range of reference is truly impressive."-Peter Brooks, New York Times Book Review, "Denis Donoghue brings a lifetime's devotion to linguistic eloquence to this book, an eloquent plea for the appreciation of literary beauty."-Denise Gigante, Stanford University, "Denis Donoghue brings a lifetime's devotion to linguistic eloquence to this book, an eloquent plea for the appreciation of literary beauty."-Denise Gigante, Stanford University , Donoghue is a formidably gifted critic whose range of reference is truly impressive. Peter Brooks, New York Times Book Review, "Denis Donoghue brings a lifetime's devotion to linguistic eloquence to this book, an eloquent plea for the appreciation of literary beauty."�Denise Gigante, Stanford University, ". . . . 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, "In this book, Donoghue continues his case for reading for aesthetic pleasure rather than to have our political values endorsed or abused. This is an argument that needs to be made, and it is all the more crucial that a critic of Donoghue's stature make it."�David Rosen, Trinity College, "Via Shakespeare, Melville, Dickinson, Woolf, and more, Donoghue sensitively instructs us in eloquence how it is achieved and how it is remarked, in gesture and incantation, the dancer and the dance." Amanda Heller, Boston Sunday Globe, "In this book, Donoghue continues his case for reading for aesthetic pleasure rather than to have our political values endorsed or abused. This is an argument that needs to be made, and it is all the more crucial that a critic of Donoghue's stature make it."-David Rosen, Trinity College, "Via Shakespeare, Melville, Dickinson, Woolf, and more, Donoghue sensitively instructs us in eloquence�how it is achieved and how it is remarked, in gesture and incantation, the dancer and the dance."�Amanda Heller, Boston Sunday Globe, "Denis Donoghue brings a lifetime''s devotion to linguistic eloquence to this book, an eloquent plea for the appreciation of literary beauty."-Denise Gigante, Stanford University , "Via Shakespeare, Melville, Dickinson, Woolf, and more, Donoghue sensitively instructs us in eloquence-how it is achieved and how it is remarked, in gesture and incantation, the dancer and the dance."-Amanda Heller, Boston Sunday Globe, "In this book, Donoghue continues his case for reading for aesthetic pleasure rather than to have our political values endorsed or abused. This is an argument that needs to be made, and it is all the more crucial that a critic of Donoghue''s stature make it."-David Rosen, Trinity College, ". . . . 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, ". . . . 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, �Donoghue is a formidably gifted critic whose range of reference is truly impressive.��Peter Brooks, New York Times Book Review
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
808.5/1
Synopsis
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., "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."
LC Classification Number
PN4129.15.D66 2008
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