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On Bathos - Literature, Art, Music (Hardcover)
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On Bathos - Literature, Art, Music (Hardcover)
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This essay collection reveals how bathos has become so central to
literature, fine art, and music. 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.
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