| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 189 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
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 1930s 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. |
| 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 celebrat. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Bathos.
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Bathos. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Crangle, Sara.
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Nicholls, Peter, 1950-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: On bathos. London : Continuum, ©2010 9781441105073 (OCoLC)496962150 |
| ISBN |
9781441160829 (electronic book) |
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1441160825 (electronic book) |
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