02857nam 2200613Ia 450 991078566910332120230725030553.01-282-76575-297866127657591-4411-6082-5(CKB)2670000000068024(EBL)583789(OCoLC)671633077(SSID)ssj0000424467(PQKBManifestationID)11310426(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000424467(PQKBWorkID)10475133(PQKB)10427001(MiAaPQ)EBC583789(Au-PeEL)EBL583789(CaPaEBR)ebr10415876(CaONFJC)MIL276575(OCoLC)893334980(EXLCZ)99267000000006802420100318d2010 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrOn bathos[electronic resource] /edited by Sara Crangle and Peter NichollsLondon Continuumc20101 online resource (202 p.)Formerly CIP.Uk1-4411-5520-1 1-4411-0507-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction On Bathos; Chapter 1 What is Bathos?; Chapter 2 Dada IS Bathos! Or: Of the Hobbyhorse Endlessly Rocking; Chapter 3 The Strings are False: Bathos, Pastoral, and Social Reflexivity in 1930's British Poetry; Chapter 4 Jim the Jerk: Bathos and Loveliness in the Poetry of James Schuyler; Chapter 5 She Disappeared into Unhappy Consciousness: Louise Bourgeois and the Bathos of Surrealism; Chapter 6 Cultures of Musical Failure; Chapter 7 Bathos and Mind-reading; Chapter 8 Low ResistanceChapter 9 Kallos Anti-Bathos? (From Calle to Freud, Lacan, and Back)IndexWhile the sublime has garnered a great deal of critical attention over the past twenty years, its counterpart, bathos, has yet to receive any extended treatment. Generally understood as an inadvertent descent to the low, vulgar, and ludicrous in writing or art, the term "bathos" was popularised by Pope, who used it to satirise his contemporaries. Ironically likening bathos to the depths of profundity, Pope lauded his peers for their influential writings whilst openly deriding their absurd misuses of figure and rhetorical device. Pope's method proved prophetic: today, artists regularly celebrateBathosStyle, LiteraryBathos.Style, Literary.809.917Crangle Sara1522063Nicholls Peter1950-1519572MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785669103321On bathos3761598UNINA