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Genre/Form: | Oratory |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Donoghue, Denis. On eloquence. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2008 (OCoLC)608189166 Online version: Donoghue, Denis. On eloquence. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2008 (OCoLC)630870262 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Denis Donoghue |
ISBN: | 9780300125412 0300125410 |
OCLC Number: | 123818283 |
Description: | vii, 199 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Taking notes -- The Latin factor -- Song without words -- Like something almost being said -- To make an end -- Blind mouths -- For and against. |
Responsibility: | Denis Donoghue. |
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Abstract:
Questions the common assumption that eloquence is merely a subset of rhetoric, a means toward a rhetorical end. This work offers many instances of eloquence in words, and suggests the forms our appreciation of them should take.
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