Talk:Sentimentalism (literature)

Improving this article

Material from the Russian article can be used to improve this article. Also, since Maudlin redirects here, some explanation for that term needs to be given. 24.126.199.129 09:27, 19 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Original research

"It is difficult to separate sentimentalism in literature from sentimentalism as philosophy. The sentimentalist literary landscape largely mirrors the philosophical debate by realizing it into actual practice through the fictional narrative and characters."

"For example, in Laurence Sterne's novel, A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, the narrator is using the sentimental character Yorick as a device to critique the obligation of morality, whether it is sentimental or rational."

"Tugging at the driving forces of the Eighteenth Century, Austen again calls to light the tension between rationalism in the senses and sentimentalism in the human's sensibility."

None of these highly interpretive, non-obvious claims receives any reference. The entire passage on "European literary sentimentalism" is filled with this kind of stuff.

I struck the whole paragraph

"There are plenty of similar literary examples throughout the sentimentalist movement in Europe in the early to mid-eighteenth century. Even still we cannot be unimpressed by the title of one nineteenth-century novel called Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. Tugging at the driving forces of the eighteenth century, Austen again calls to light the tension between rationalism in the senses and sentimentalism in the human's sensibility."

because of this. the first sentence doesn't add anything to the article. The second sentence i think is an example of a highly interpretive claim-- and yet so vague i can't tell what the claim is-- is "sense and sensibility" antisentimentalism or not? more importantly, is it even related? and the third sentence you have mentioned. The original research tag has been around since 2009, so i think this is reasonable. 108.2.115.212 (talk) 20:18, 12 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Categorical imperative

Rewrite. The CI is not analytic. 2A06:5B05:8103:6800:C84C:848F:9F8B:87B1 (talk) 18:25, 21 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]