139.123: College of Humanities and Social Sciences - School of Humanities, Media and Creative Communication - Massey University
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Matthew Harris (2008)
[pron: pey-thos-skeyp] noun [Origin: 2005; 2006 for def.] Etymology: pathos
"quality that arouses the emotions," 1668, from Gk. pathos "feeling, emotion”
when revisiting a place significant to your childhood, or, as the case may be, a place
you used to frequent with an old lover, such as
+ scape "place, or scene," 1773, abstracted from landscape; as a new comb. element,
first attested use 1796, in ‘prisonscape’
The Eden Garden
24 Omana Avenue
1. the connection between a place or setting and an emotion
2. a feeling of being confined to an earlier time and place
you can’t distinguish between your present-self and the self detained in the past.
You’re neither. You need a new definition. One where your internals rhyme.
4 comments:
nice poem....but does pathoscape refer to only pains or suffering? can it refer to emotions in general?
nice poem. but can pathos refer to emotions in general?
Well, yes - would I suppose be the short answer.
I find the follwing definition (from the 2000 American Heritage Dictionary) online:
pa·thos (pths, -thôs)
n.
1. A quality, as of an experience or a work of art, that arouses feelings of pity, sympathy, tenderness, or sorrow.
2. The feeling, as of sympathy or pity, so aroused.
[Greek, suffering; see kwent(h)- in Indo-European roots.]
The Greek derivation is important there. Rhetoricians generally like to use pathos, logos & ethos as headings for the three essential elements of effective speech: feeling / reason / & balance (or, perhaps, character) ...
Hi Matt, Now I see what your Doctorate thesis was all about. Very clever indeed.
Well done.
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