bathos
(en)
(noun) a literary term coined by Alexander Pope to describe to describe amusingly failed attempts at sublimity (an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous); adj is "bathetic"
The Baffler #50: The New Booboisie
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Jonathan Sturgeon
(editor)
by
Jonathan Sturgeon
(editor)
The Baffler #50: The New Booboisie
by
Jonathan Sturgeon
(editor)
by
Jonathan Sturgeon
(editor)
The Baffler #50: The New Booboisie
by
Jonathan Sturgeon
(editor)
by
Jonathan Sturgeon
(editor)
whose death on 9/11 seems to cinch the narrator’s redemption in the novel’s bathetic conclusion
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