Menippean satire
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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
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the novel's debt to the genre of Menippean satire
on Broom
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What do they say it is? Oh, a cultural cosmogony, a Menippean satire, and most overwhelming of all, a sort of evangel.
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highly carnivalesque, of a kind that incorporates a Menippean discourse (after the satirical style of the ancient Greek philosopher Menippus), a style that is both comic and tragic, as Kristeva informs us
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