Menippean Satire Reconsidered
Subtitle: From Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: October 12, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780801882104
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Great Britain; English literature; Semiotics & Theory; Literary Criticism; English; French; Latin; General; British Isles; History; Ancient and Classical; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / Ancient & Classical; Classicism; Satire, English; 18th century; History and criticism
First sentence: Menippean satire's namesake left us only his name, some fragments, and some conventions now broadly applied to vastly different works.