LEADER 02889nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910459947603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-76575-2 010 $a9786612765759 010 $a1-4411-6082-5 035 $a(CKB)2670000000068024 035 $a(EBL)583789 035 $a(OCoLC)671633077 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000424467 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11310426 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000424467 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10475133 035 $a(PQKB)10427001 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC583789 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL583789 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10415876 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL276575 035 $a(OCoLC)893334980 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000068024 100 $a20100318d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aOn bathos$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Sara Crangle and Peter Nicholls 210 $aLondon $cContinuum$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (202 p.) 300 $aFormerly CIP.$5Uk 311 $a1-4411-5520-1 311 $a1-4411-0507-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 Resistance 327 $aChapter 9 Kallos Anti-Bathos? (From Calle to Freud, Lacan, and Back)Index 330 $aWhile 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 celebrate 606 $aBathos 606 $aStyle, Literary 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aBathos. 615 0$aStyle, Literary. 676 $a809.917 701 $aCrangle$b Sara$0846661 701 $aNicholls$b Peter$f1950-$0846662 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459947603321 996 $aOn bathos$91891666 997 $aUNINA