Sara Crangle

On Bathos: Literature, Art, Music Sara Crangle Nippod edition

Brief Description: This essay collection reveals how bathos has become so central to literature, fine art, and musicTable of Contents: 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 Miller5. 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 Rabate (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Index"

Contributor Bio:  Crangle, Sara 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). Contributor Bio:  Nicholls, Peter Peter Nicholls is Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Sussex.