Menippean satire

It is the only example of Menippean satire from the classical era that has survived.

She has since been described to employ Menippean satire.

The Menippean satire genre is named after him.

Varro's own 150 books of Menippean satires survive only through quotations.

His writings exercised considerable influence upon later literature, and the Menippean satire genre is named after him.

In the 20th century, after having been mostly overlooked for centuries, menippean satire has significantly influenced postmodern literature.

As in the case of Aristophanes plays, menippean satire turned upon images of filth and disease.

Menippean satire plays a special role in Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the novel.

Contemporary scholars including Frye classify the following works as Menippean satires:

For Bakhtin, carnivalization has a long and rich historical foundation in the genre of the ancient Menippean satire.

The title derives from the classical Roman literary genre "menippean satire" which included a mixture of prose and verse.

It is classified as a Menippean satire, a fusion of allegorical tale, platonic dialogue, and lyrical poetry.

At Swim-Two-Birds has been classified as a Menippean satire.

Ancient Menippean Satire.

Chaucer and the Menippean Satire.

Critic Northrop Frye said that Menippean satire moves rapidly between styles and points of view.

The term Menippean satire distinguishes it from the earlier satire pioneered by Aristophanes, which was based on personal attacks.

Rather than being structured in the formal verse preferred by Horace and Juvenal, Menippean satire was truly a satura.

"On the Origin of 'Menippean Satire' as the Name of a Literary Genre."

The oldest form of satire still in use is the Menippean satire by Menippus of Gadara.

Courtney, E. "Parody and Literary Allusion in Menippean Satire."

Weinbrot, Howard D. Menippean Satire Reconsidered.

Menippean satire was essentially a prose narrative with some poetic verse inserted, probably as parodies of Homer, as a means to ridicule some folly.

Embedded in the whirl of extravagant invective, Burke is able, like all writers of Menippean satire, to express some subversive criticism:

Saturarum Menippearum libri CL (Menippean Satires in 150 books)