Menippean satire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - The Diigo Meta page

• 25 Apr 17
  

  kzoldyeck
  • The genre of Menippean satire is a form of satire, usually in prose, which has a length and structure similar to a novel and is characterized by attacking mental attitudes rather than specific individuals or entities.
  • The term Menippean satire distinguishes it from the earlier satire pioneered by Aristophanes, which was based on personal attacks
  • Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics
  • Bakhtin treats Menippean satire as one of the classical "serio-comic" genres, alongside Socratic dialogue and other forms that Bakhtin claims are united by a
  • Menippean satire plays a special role in Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the novel
  • "carnival sense of the world"
  • "carnival is the past millennia's way of sensing the world as one great communal performance"
  • "opposed to that one-sided and gloomy official seriousness which is dogmatic and hostile to evolution and change"
  • Authors of "Menippea" in Bakhtin's sense include Voltaire, Diderot, and E.T.A. Hoffmann.^[19]
  • For Bakhtin, the novels of Dostoevsky represent the highest point in the development of the genre.^[20]
  • “Menippean” signifies a mixed, often discontinuous way of writing that draws upon distinct, multiple traditions. It is normally highly intellectual and typically embodies an idea, an ideology or a mind-set in the figure of a grotesque, even disgusting, comic character.

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• 28 Jun 08
  

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• 05 May 07
  

  Adam Crowe

  'Menippean satire is a term employed broadly to refer to prose satires that are rhapsodic in nature, combining many different targets of ridicule into a fragmented satiric narrative, similar to a novel.'

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