SENTIMENTALISM in literature, LITERATURE, POETS, MODERNISM (Literature), and CONFERENCES & conventions
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The article discusses the concept of sentimentality and its use in literature. It focuses on the panel discussion "A Symposium on Sentiment" during the 2010 Association of Writers & Writing Programs conference which looked at the current state of sentimental affairs. It is said there is a growing resistance to sentiment among poets due to modernism. The possible eradication of sentiment in the crusade to root out sentimentality in poetry is also discussed.
THACKERAY, William Makepeace, 1811-1863, ENGLISH novelists, CYNICISM, SENTIMENTALISM in literature, NOVELISTS, and LITERATURE
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This article profiles English novelist W.M. Thackeray. Thackeray is the sad victim of much hackneyed faultfinding. It is the proper thing to say of Thackeray that he moralizes. It is also the proper thing to say of him that he pictured only the narrow little world he saw. The two indictments are mutually destructive, but both are nevertheless the proper thing to say. It is the proper thing to say of Thackeray that he was a sentimentalist, and it is the proper thing to say that he was a cynic. The two characteristics are, on the face of it, mutually exclusive, but they are the correct things to say of Thackeray.
Impossibilia: Revista Internacional de Estudios Literarios; Oct2011, Issue 2, p121-139, 19p
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LYRIC poetry, MODERN poetry, IDENTITY (Philosophical concept) in literature, SENTIMENTALISM in literature, and LITERATURE
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Twisted from the Ordinary: Essays on American Literary Naturalism; 2003, p1-22, 22p
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NATURALISM, SENTIMENTALISM in literature, and LITERATURE
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The article discusses naturalism and sentimentalism attributes depicted in the literary pieces of Rebecca Harding Davis and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. It claims that Davis's "Life in the Iron Mills" encourages sympathy among readers and extends compassion to the poor. Phelps's "The Silent Partner" likewise conveys naturalistic inquiries throughout the story, which results to unpleasant outcomes. It states that both texts from the authors represent the victory of sentimental hope over despair.
Encyclopedia of Literature & Criticism; 1990, p1029-1043, 15p
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SENTIMENTALISM in literature, LITERATURE, ROMANTICISM in literature, and CRITICISM
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The article focuses on the sentimental movement of English literature. The eighteenth-century sentimental movement has been dismissed as a vapid and insipid genre, significant only as the prelude to a more highly charged and piquant Romanticism. When compared with the passionate individualism of the romantics, the polite products of the sentimental school appear cloying or dull. At best, sentiment is emotion shackled; at worst, sentiment is a sickly sweet substitute for a flesh-and-blood reality. The pathetic addresses and gently pulsating arteries which characterize the pages of Laurence Sterne's "A Sentimental Journey" are meagre fare for those who have tasted the shrieking lovers and grief-filled chasms of William Blake. Sterne's plea for a more gentle and courteous international intercourse similarly pales beside Blake's exultation in a virile and glorious Albion. It is all too easy to sit in judgement upon the sentimental movement; it is much more difficult to understand it. There are good reasons, however, to make the attempt.
American Literature; Jan1977, Vol. 48 Issue 4, p590, 7p
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FICTION, CRITICISM, SENTIMENTALISM in literature, and LITERATURE
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Focuses on novels by Theodore Dreiser in which he created a sentimental heroin Aileen Butler. Criticism of such novels by some conservative critics; Performance of novels by Dreiser when they were published; Sentimentalism in Dreiser's novels.
American Literature; Jan1966, Vol. 37 Issue 4, p458, 13p
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AUTHORS, SENTIMENTALISM in literature, POETRY (Literary form), and LITERATURE
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Focuses on the sentimentalism in poems of William Carlos Williams. Presentation of a sense of sustained intense excitement in poems of the 'Al Que Quiere'; Emotions in the poem 'To Waken an Old Lady.'
New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry & Poetics; 1993, p1145-1145, 2/3p
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SENTIMENTALISM in literature, POETRY (Literary form) -- History & criticism, EMOTIONS, LITERATURE, EXPRESSIVE behavior, and POETS
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The article presents a definition of the term SENTIMENTALITY. SENTIMENTALITY in poetry; (1) poetic indulgence in the exhibition of pathetic emotions for their own sake; (2) poetic indulgence of more emotion (often self-regarding) than seems warranted by the stimulus; (3) excessively direct poetic expression of pathos (q.v.) without a sufficient artistic correlative. Whether in poet or reader, s., a form of emotional redundancy, and thus a fault of rhet. as well as of ethics and tact, often suggests the presence of self-pity and the absence of mature emotional self-control.
Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General, Literatur, American fiction -- History and criticism -- 19th century, Violence in literature, Empathy in literature, Sentimentalism in literature, and National characteristics, American, in literature
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Includes bibliographical references and index Introduction -- Wieland, familicide, and the suffering father -- Melville's fraternal melancholies -- Fathers of violence: Frederick Douglass, John Brown, and the radical reproduction of sensibility -- The death of boyhood and the making of Little women Working to reconcile the Christian dictum to 'love one's neighbor as oneself' with evidence of U.S. sociopolitical aggression, including slavery, corporal punishment of children, and Indian removal, Barnes focuses on aggressors--rather than the weak or abused--to understand paradoxical relationships between empathy, violence, and religion that took hold so strongly in nineteenth-century American culture
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Colonies, English fiction, French fiction, Imperialism, Literature, Sentimentalism, Kolonie, Literatur, English fiction -- History and criticism -- 18th century, French fiction -- History and criticism -- 18th century, Sentimentalism in literature, Imperialism in literature, and Colonies in literature
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-288) and index The distinction of sentimental feeling -- Sterne's snuff box -- Tales told by things -- Making humans human -- Global commerce in Raynal's Histoire des deux Indes
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