TY  - BOOK
AU  - McLuhan,Eric
TI  - Cynic satire
SN  - 9781443882996
AV  - PN6149.S2 M248 2015eb
U1  - 827 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
PB  - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
KW  - Satire
KW  - History
KW  - Mythology
KW  - Parodies, imitations, etc
KW  - HUMOR
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - A Menippean - Cynic - satire is a device for producing a specific kind of effect on the reader. Menippean satire is an active form, not a passive one: any work that produces the effect of a Menippean satire is a Menippean satire. It is the embodiment of a Cynic - of a Diogenes or a Menippus or a Lucian or a Rabelais. For centuries, it has frustrated the best efforts of critics to define it. Descriptive criteria (such as "a mixture of verse and prose") invariably fail because the form is determinedly fluid and polymorphous, and playful: it shifts its mode of attack with every change in culture
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