Article: Gulliver's Travels and Ching-hua yuan Revisited: A Menippean Approach.(Review)

Article: Babel''s Fantastic Tales in the Tradition of Menippean ...
Canadian Slavonic Papers;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... that are written in the tradition of menippean satire. These stories are filled with the ... describes as salient characteristics of menippean satire. "Sin" is a graphic example of ... Babel', heretic and blasphemer, menippean satire is the perfect vehicle for expressing ...

Article: Menippean Satire Reconsidered: From Antiquity to ...
The Modern Language Review;  October 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Menippean Satire Reconsidered: From Antiquity to ... 1990s: Joel Relihan's Ancient Menippean Satire (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University ... University Press, 1995), and my own Menippean Satire and the Republic of Letters, 1581 ...

Article: Menippean Satire and the Republic of Letters: ...
Renaissance Quarterly;  September 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... understanding of the ancient genre of Menippean satire, both Greek and Latin, has grown ... Renaissance. While most students of Menippean satire have focused on the Greek sources ... her typology on the later life of Menippean satire among the Romans. Delineating two ...

Article: Carter Kaplan. Critical Synoptics. Menippean Satire ...
Utopian Studies;  March 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... my scholarly reading of a book on Menippean satire and the analysis of intellectual mythology ... inspired both by the literary genre of Menippean Satire and by Wittgenstein's philosophical ... ideological capitalism". But what is Menippean Satire, after all? Of what does Critical ...

Article: Unauthorised Versions: Irish Menippean Satire. ...
Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies;  March 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... Lanters, Unauthorised Versions: Irish Menippean Satire, 1919-1952. Catholic University ... refers to the classical sources of Menippean satire. Menippos the Cynic was called by ... bring about a change in society. The Menippean Satire itself, she might have added, was ...

Dictionary definition: Menippean satire
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms;      401 words ...Menippean satire or Varronian satire , a form of intellectually humorous work characterized ... introducing the overlapping term anatomy after a famous example of Menippean satire, Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy (1621). The best ...

Article: Menippean Satire Reconsidered: From Antiquity to ...
Reference & Research Book News;  May 1, 2006 ;     531 words ...0801882109 Menippean satire reconsidered; from antiquity to the eighteenth century. Weinbrot, Howard D. Johns Hopkins U. Press 2005 375 pages $60.00 ...