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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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menippean satire
menippean



the novel's debt to the genre of Menippean satire

on Broom

—p.8 David Foster Wallace and the Novel of Ideas (3) by Adam Kelly
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7 years ago


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

—p.89 Pathos Angelical: Fallen Angels (83) by Stephen Teo
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3 months ago