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1 juin 2015
- handle: 10670/1.e48dts
- isbn: 9781909254350
- eisbn: 9782821854017
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Sandra Clark, « Denis Donoghue, On Eloquence (Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 2008), 199 + vii pp. », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.e48dts
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This short and beautiful book savours of a past age. It appears to originate from a discontent with the emphases current in the teaching of literature in universities, in particular with the ideological approaches which privilege the didactic over the aesthetic, and accordingly result in an indifference to eloquence, defined at one point (though there are many definitions) as ‘saying the right, beautiful thing, regardless of consequences’. It consists of seven essays, all very personal in ton...