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The Discipline of Language |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / THE LOVE OF LANGUAGE |
| Author: Joel Dando |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1995 |
| Size: 2,775 Words, 16,966 Characters |
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Ideas generate their own proper expression; the expression, therefore, can be legitimately and fruitfully analyzed to investigate the germinating ideas. This organic conception of composition was articulated and vigorously championed in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century by various Romantic writers, who opposed it to what they considered the unduly restrictive and formalistic set of rules that dominated neoclassical discussions of all the arts, including the arts of language.
But the unity of thought and form hardly originates with the Romantics. It dates back, predictably, to classical times. Neoclassical critics recognized the importance of this unity, but they formalized it into the principle of decorum. The current usage of this word accurately suggests the ways in whi...
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...thing that diminishes us. On the contrary, it enlarges our conceptions, our power, and our freedom. The enchantment of language well used is available to everyone who submits to learn the spell. Those too impatient to learn, to study the process of how idea unfolds into expression, are like the sorcerer's apprentice: eager, undisciplined, and frustrated. Awkward at best, dangerous at worst. vbcrlf
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