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On Eloquence
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Author
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Denis Donoghue.
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Publisher
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Yale
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Format
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paperback
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8
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5.2
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ISBN
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9780300158397
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Pages/Publication Date
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199/2008
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Daedalus Item Code
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22109
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Description
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Questioning the common assumption that eloquence is merely a subset of rhetoric, a means toward a rhetorical end, the eminent and critic of the English language Denis Donoghue 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 that our appreciation of them should take.
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