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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 Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace: Language, Identity, and Resistance
by Clare Hayes-Brady

The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace: Language, Identity, and Resistance
by Clare Hayes-Brady

The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace: Language, Identity, and Resistance
by Clare Hayes-Brady


his frames of reference zigzag wildly from bathos to profundity

on DFW

—p.43 "It's Just the Texture of the World I Live in": Wallace and the World (41) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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