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- The genre of Menippean satire is a form of satire, usually in prose, that is characterized by attacking mental attitudes rather than specific individuals...
- literature. Of these, the most significant were Socratic dialogue and Menippean satire. According to Bakhtin, the seriocomic genres always began with...
- place at the end of a literary tradition going back to the ancient world (Menippean satire), and his translation of the folk carnival ethos—where conventional...
- literature can commonly be categorized as either Horatian, Juvenalian, or Menippean. Horatian satire, named for the Roman satirist Horace (65–8 BCE), playfully...
- regarded Bobok as one of the finest works in the literary tradition of Menippean satire, and argues that it encapsulates many of the thematic concerns...
- Philosophy Carnivalesque Chronotope Culture of po****r laughter Dialogue (Bakhtin) Grotesque body Heteroglossia Menippean satire Polyphony (literature)...
- Γαδαρεύς Menippos ho Gadareus; fl. 3rd century BC) was a Cynic satirist. The Menippean satire genre is named after him. His works, all of which are lost, were...
- according to C****ius Dio, was written by Seneca the Younger. A partly extant Menippean satire, an anonymous work called Ludus de morte Divi Claudii ("Play on...
- identifies the author as Titus Petronius. The Satyricon is an example of Menippean satire, which is different from the formal verse satire of Juvenal or...
- Philosophy Carnivalesque Chronotope Culture of po****r laughter Dialogue (Bakhtin) Grotesque body Heteroglossia Menippean satire Polyphony (literature)...