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…mehr
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 and incorporate bathetic practice. This essay collection considers how bathos has become so central to literature, fine art, and music. The innovative and diverse contributions assess the consequences of this endemic inversion of aesthetic standards, and consider where artistic production might go after hitting, and so comfortably inhabiting, rock bottom.
Sara Crangle is a Lecturer at the University of Sussex, UK, and the author of Prosaic Desires: Modernist Knowing, Boredom, Laughter, and Anticipation (Edinburgh UP). Peter Nicholls is Professor of English at New York University, USA. His books include George Oppen and the Fate of Modernism (OUP 2007), Modernisms: A Literary Guide (2nd ed., Palgrave Macmillan 2009) and Politics, Economics and Writing (Macmillan 1984).
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On Bathos: Introduction Peter Nicoholls and Sara Crangle (New York University USA and University of Sussex UK) 2. What is Bathos? Keston Sutherland (University of Sussex UK) 3. Dada is Bathos! Or: of the the hobbyhorse endlessly rocking Sara Crangle (University of Sussex UK) 4. The Strings are False: Bathos Pastoral and Social Reflexivity in 1930s British Poetry Tyrus Miller 5. Jim the Jerk: Bathos and Loveliness in the Poetry of James Schuyler John Wilkinson (University of Notre Dame USA) 6. She Disappeared into Unhappy Consciousness: Louise Bourgeois and the Bathos of Surrealism Doug Haynes (University of Sussex UK) 7. Cultures of Musical Failures Francesca Brittan (University of Cambridge UK) 8. Bathos and Mind-reading Bob Perelman (University of Pennsylvania USA) 9. Low Resistance Martin Crowley (University of Cambridge UK) 10. Kallos anti-Bathos? (From Calle to Freud Lacan and back) Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania USA) Index
On Bathos: Introduction Peter Nicoholls and Sara Crangle (New York University USA and University of Sussex UK) 2. What is Bathos? Keston Sutherland (University of Sussex UK) 3. Dada is Bathos! Or: of the the hobbyhorse endlessly rocking Sara Crangle (University of Sussex UK) 4. The Strings are False: Bathos Pastoral and Social Reflexivity in 1930s British Poetry Tyrus Miller 5. Jim the Jerk: Bathos and Loveliness in the Poetry of James Schuyler John Wilkinson (University of Notre Dame USA) 6. She Disappeared into Unhappy Consciousness: Louise Bourgeois and the Bathos of Surrealism Doug Haynes (University of Sussex UK) 7. Cultures of Musical Failures Francesca Brittan (University of Cambridge UK) 8. Bathos and Mind-reading Bob Perelman (University of Pennsylvania USA) 9. Low Resistance Martin Crowley (University of Cambridge UK) 10. Kallos anti-Bathos? (From Calle to Freud Lacan and back) Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania USA) Index
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