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Title: Ancient Menippean Satire

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Language:        English

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Length:        306 Pages
Weight:        1.3 Pounds
Height:         9.5 Inches
Width:          6.5 Inches
Thickness:    1 Inches



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Although the term Menippean satire was never used in antiquity to name a distinct literary genre (the term was coined in the sixteenth century), it has come to describe a vast body of world literature - from Erasmus and the humanists to Rabelais and Swift, from Moby Dick to Alice in Wonderland and Ulysses. The term is invoked to explain the origins of the modern novel and to categorize forms of prose fiction that are not essentially novelistic. But until now, no book has explored the full range of ancient Menippean satire from its origins to the early middle ages. In Ancient Menippean Satire, Joel C. Relihan charts the history and development of this ancient genre. He demonstrates its unity as a Greco-Roman phenomenon, describes its different branches, and shows the continuity of the genre into late classical and early Christian times. He also discusses the theories of the genre set forth by Northrop Frye and Mikhail Bakhtin and presents a new and detailed definition that respects the particularities of classical texts. In chapters on the fragments and testimonia relevant to Menippus and Varro, Relihan shows the specific Greek origins of the genre and its transformation in Roman hands. Subsequent chapters offer readings of Seneca's Apocolocyntosis Petronius, Lucian's Necyomantia and Icaromenippus, Julian's Symposium, Martianus Capella, Fulgentius's mythologies, and Ennodius's so-called Paraenesis Didascalica. Boethius's Consolation is dealt with in the Conclusion, which looks ahead to the Menippean satires of the twelfth century. Three appendixes discuss the relations between Menippean satire and the recently discovered fragments of Greek prosimetric fiction, and offer annotatedtranslations of the text of Ennodius and the Prologue of Fulgentius's Mythologies.



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Book Details Summary: The title of this book is Ancient Menippean Satire and it was written by Joel C. Relihan. This edition of Ancient Menippean Satire is in a Hardcover format. This books publish date is September 1993 and it has a suggested retail price of $58. There are 306 pages in the book and it was published by Johns Hopkins Univ Pr. The 10 digit ISBN is 0801845246 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9780801845246. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.