Sentimentalism - Sentimentalism

Japanese: センチメンタリズム - せんちめんたりずむ(英語表記)sentimentalism
Sentimentalism - Sentimentalism

Generally translated as "sentimentalism," it is used to describe sentimental tendencies such as "tear-jerking" and "pulling tears from children," but originally it meant "sensitive" or "elegant." The "sentimental comedies" popular in England in the late 17th century were plays that appealed to moral emotions and drew tears from the audience. In the early 18th century, intellectualism and classicism became popular as a reaction to this, but in the middle of the century, a trend to value human sensibility reappeared. The central figure in this movement was Laurence Sterne, who elevated the meaning of sentiment to "refined sensibility" in his travelogue "A Sentimental Journey." This work had a great impact on the continent, adding the new words empfindsam to German and sentimental to French, and eventually leading to Flaubert writing "Sentimental Education."

[Hideo Funato]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

一般に「感傷主義」と訳され、「お涙頂戴(ちょうだい)」「子女の紅涙を絞る」式の感傷癖に用いられるが、本来は「多感」「風流」などの意味。イギリス17世紀末流行の「感傷喜劇」comedy of sentimentは、道徳感情に訴えて観客の涙を絞る劇構成であった。18世紀前期その反動として主知主義、古典主義が流行したが、同世紀中期にはふたたび人間の感性を重んじる傾向が現れる。その中心的存在がローレンス・スターンで、紀行文『センチメンタル・ジャーニー』によって、センチメントの意味を「洗練された感受性」にまで高めた。この作品は大陸に大きな影響を与え、ドイツ語にempfindsam、フランス語にsentimentalという新語を加え、やがてフロベールに『感情教育』を書かせるまでに至った。

[船戸英夫]

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