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Post by Aloysius on Feb 16, 2024 0:11:17 GMT
Oh ok.
I don't mind the odd dose of sentimentality now and again. I even liked 'Titanic'.
Incidentally the modern perception of the concept (in drama and fiction) is largely drawn from the eighteenth-century (Age of Enlightenment) movement called, er, Sentimentalism, and was essentially a state of mind aspired to as a refinement and elevation of personal development (in certain refined and over-priveleged circles). It is also considered to be the precursor of Romanticism. However it wasn't too long before novels and poetry began to appear which satirised (takes the piss) the concept, perhaps notably in Lawrence Sterne's 'A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy'. Which is dead funny.
However these days it tends to be inextricably bound to melodrama.
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