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
This essay collection reveals how bathos has become so central to literature, fine art, and music
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).
"We think we know what bathos is and how to judge it. This
fascinating collection of essays shows just how mistaken we have
been. Bathos is a concept that productively unsettles many existing
concepts of reception, interpretation, literary value, affect, and
ideology. With scholarly wit and a highly readable awareness of the
potential bathos of commentary, these essays explore the origins of
the idea and its contribution to modern culture, in a compelling
series of close readings of both familiar and surprising
manifestations in art, poetry, fiction, and music. At the risk of a
bathetic blurb, a risk that these poets and scholars suggest is
almost unavoidable, I will say that this is an essential volume for
anyone wishing to follow current developments in the literary and
cultural study of the highs and lows of modern arts."
*Professor Peter Middleton, University of Southampton, UK *
"Who would have thought that an essay collection on the topic of
bathos would be a terrific book?...Yet while the sublime still
appeals to artists' imaginative intensities, it seems that it is no
longer a viable imaginative option for engaging modern reality.
Indeed, as the editors suggest in their superb introduction, 'In
our own time "sinking" has become the most deliberate of arts and
perhaps the only one we have." Charles Altieri University of
California, Berkeley, USA in The European Journal of English
Studies
... superbly entertaining... the neophyte or uninitiated reader is
bound to learn something from this ingenious collection.
*The Use of English*
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