Generally understood as an inadvertant descent to the low, vulgar, and ludicrous in writing or art, the term 'bathos' was popularised by Pope. This essay collection considers how bathos has become so central to literature, fine art, and music. The contributions assess the conseq…
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"…
Generally understood as an inadvertant descent to the low, vulgar, and ludicrous in writing or art, the term 'bathos' was popularised by Pope. This essay collection considers how bathos has become so central to literature, fine art, and music. The contributions assess the conseq…
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"…
Studying the work of Joyce, Woolf, Stein and Beckett, Sara Crangle explores the everyday human longings found in Modernist writing. This discussion is set within a framework of continental philosophy, particularlythe thinking of Emmanuel Levinas.
Exploring a variety of everyday human longings as they arise in modernist fiction this book poses a direct challenge to psychoanalytic criticism that characterises desire as sexual or powerful in nature. Using continental philosophy as its framework it contends that human longin…
