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2005
AbstractSentimentality, the most easily recognizable of emotional vices, is often charged with subordinating truth to desired emotional effect. Yet there can be good reasons for doing that. Where there is fault, it lies in allowing the real importance of the object to be subordinated to its emotive utility to the agent.
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AbstractSentimentality, the most easily recognizable of emotional vices, is often charged with subordinating truth to desired emotional effect. Yet there can be good reasons for doing that. Where there is fault, it lies in allowing the real importance of the object to be subordinated to its emotive utility to the agent.
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Sentimental Art and Sentimental People
2001Abstract OSCAR Wilde is reported to have said that “one must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.” Wilde’s aphorisms often contain an element of surprise: as with many jokes, we expect one thing but get just the opposite.
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2011
The category of sentimentalism and its general features have been extremely useful to literary critics. With the publication of F. O. Matthiessen's American Renaissance, sentimentalism stood as the dividing line between high and popular literature, between male and female writers, between serious and maudlin representations of American life in ...
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The category of sentimentalism and its general features have been extremely useful to literary critics. With the publication of F. O. Matthiessen's American Renaissance, sentimentalism stood as the dividing line between high and popular literature, between male and female writers, between serious and maudlin representations of American life in ...
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Blackfriars, 1931
Mrs. Seemsby-Gore liked, one to have a title, so when she went to the Pyrenees she made up her mind to look up Miss Fairleigh—the Honourable Miss Fairleigh, she would remind you, Lord Fielden’s daughter. If you said ‘Ah!’ vaguely, because you didn’t know Miss Fairleigh and had never set eyes on Fielden, she was tempted to write you down an outsider ...
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Mrs. Seemsby-Gore liked, one to have a title, so when she went to the Pyrenees she made up her mind to look up Miss Fairleigh—the Honourable Miss Fairleigh, she would remind you, Lord Fielden’s daughter. If you said ‘Ah!’ vaguely, because you didn’t know Miss Fairleigh and had never set eyes on Fielden, she was tempted to write you down an outsider ...
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2020
“Sentiment” is a term that signifies differently in its different English forms (sentiments, sentimental, sentimentality, sentimentalism), and these forms themselves signify differently at different times and in different languages. In French, whence it derives, the verb sentir means “to feel” or “to sense,” and a relatively clear distinction can be ...
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“Sentiment” is a term that signifies differently in its different English forms (sentiments, sentimental, sentimentality, sentimentalism), and these forms themselves signify differently at different times and in different languages. In French, whence it derives, the verb sentir means “to feel” or “to sense,” and a relatively clear distinction can be ...
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