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Catttt Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary
"pathos" and "bathos"
What do "pathos" and "bathos" mean in the following context? The only relevant meaning that I found for "bathos" was "depth" as seen in this picture:
Therefore, "pathos" may mean "superficiality", and the sentence might mean "where feelings meet concepts"? huh?
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The Simpsons must surely represent satirical absurdity at its most affectionate, while South Park’s perky kids resign themselves to an insane world. For Hirst, the Chapman Brothers, Tracey Emin, Gavin Turk and a host of others, life’s a bitch, and then you die. A lot of performance art presents the world as an irrational and indifferent place where pathos is met with bathos– Brian Catling, Bobby Baker, Gary Stevens or the performance groups whose very names indicate where they stand – Ridiculusmus, Improbable Theatre, Frantic Assembly, Forced Entertainment.
Full context https://books.google.de/books?id=5_jVBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT50&lpg=PT50&dq=
Therefore, "pathos" may mean "superficiality", and the sentence might mean "where feelings meet concepts"? huh?
Context:
The Simpsons must surely represent satirical absurdity at its most affectionate, while South Park’s perky kids resign themselves to an insane world. For Hirst, the Chapman Brothers, Tracey Emin, Gavin Turk and a host of others, life’s a bitch, and then you die. A lot of performance art presents the world as an irrational and indifferent place where pathos is met with bathos– Brian Catling, Bobby Baker, Gary Stevens or the performance groups whose very names indicate where they stand – Ridiculusmus, Improbable Theatre, Frantic Assembly, Forced Entertainment.
Full context https://books.google.de/books?id=5_jVBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT50&lpg=PT50&dq=
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I looked into your links. Can I conclude it means "where grief and irony meet"?
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red appleCan I conclude it means "where grief and irony meet"?Not really. "bathos" is not really "irony".
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can you give a one-word synonym for it? humor, absurdity, vanity...? How would you rewrite "where pathos meets bathos" in other words?
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red applecan you give a one-word synonym for it?No, but to me the dictionary definitions seem clear. What part of the dictionary definitions do you not understand?
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