Critical synoptics
Subtitle: Menippean satire and the analysis of intellectual mythology
By: Carter Kaplan.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Madison [N.J.]; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
Subjects: Satire -- History and criticism; Satire -- Classical influences; Dystopias in literature
Description: "In Critical Synoptics, Carter Kaplan argues that Menippean satire represents a tradition of rigorous critical inquiry that can be compared to the reformation poetics of Milton and Blake, and the analytic philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein.

At once appealing to specialists in literary criticism, philosophy, satire, American and British Romanticism, and the study of science and literature, this book advances beyond the frontiers of the established, professional cultures of knowledge to make a forceful statement of humanistic understanding."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-214) and index.