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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 Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism
by Juno Jill Richards, Katherine Hill, Merve Emre, Sarah Chihaya

The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism
by Juno Jill Richards, Katherine Hill, Merve Emre, Sarah Chihaya

The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism
by Juno Jill Richards, Katherine Hill, Merve Emre, Sarah Chihaya


the surprise comes in the bathetic letdown of their failures

—p.117 Letters (2015): The Story of the Lost Child (100) missing author
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