On bathos / edited by Sara Crangle and Peter Nicholls.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crangle, Sara.

Nicholls, Peter, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bathos.

Literary style.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Continuum, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While 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

Contents:

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 Resistance

Chapter 9 Kallos Anti-Bathos? (From Calle to Freud, Lacan, and Back)Index

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612765759

9781282765757

1282765752

9781441160829

1441160825

OCLC:

671633077