Poetics of sentimentality

Philosophy and Literature

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 207-215

  Furtak, Rick Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 60950720438     PISSN: 01900013     EISSN: 1086329X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/phl.2002.0010     Document Type: Review

References (13)

1. Robert C. Solomon, The Passions (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1993), pp. 8-15
2. The Passions, pp. 111-19
3. "In Defense of Sentimentality," in Emotion and the Arts, ed. Mette Hjort and Sue Laver (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), pp. 225-45
4. quotation from p. 226. This is a revision of an essay first published in PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE 14 (1990): 304-23. Unless otherwise noted, I cite the more recent version, hereafter abbreviated S
5. Hume, "Of the Delicacy of Taste and Passion," in Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary, ed. Eugene Miller (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1985), pp. 3-8
6. Wilfred Owen, The Complete Poems and Fragments, ed. Jon Stallworthy, 2 vols. (London: Chatto & Windus, 1983). The first stanza is taken from an unfinished ballad, vol. 2, pp. 503-7, the second from "Dulce Et Decorum Est," vol. 1, p. 140
7. Mark Jefferson, "What is Wrong With Sentimentality?," Mind 92 (1983): 527
8. Owen, The Complete Poems and Fragments, vol. 2, p. 535
9. Both poems appear in The Norton Anthology of English Literature, ed. M. H. Abrams et al., 6th ed., vol. 2 (New York: Norton, 1993), pp. 1,824 and 2,213
10. See the definition by Tomas Kulka in Kitsch and Art (University Park: Penn State Press, 1996), pp. 26-27
11. Cf. Roger Scruton, The Aesthetics of Music (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), p. 492
12. Robert C. Solomon, "L'Étranger and the Truth," PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE 2 (1978): 141-59
13. "Poetry - excites us to artificial feelings - makes us callous to real ones." This remark is attributed to Coleridge by Geoffrey Hill in The Lords of Limit: Essays on Literature and Ideas (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984), p. 4