Day: 22 April 2016

  • Pathetic Fallacy: Not actually an insult

    Pathetic Fallacy: Not actually an insult

    What is pathetic fallacy? Pathetic fallacy is a poetic device where, for the purpose of creating symbolic value or another higher-order creative expression, we attribute human emotions to items which don’t feel emotions. Edit Torrent A Short History of Pathetic Fallacy The term ‘pathetic fallacy’ was coined in 1856 by a man called John Ruskin (an art […]

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