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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Menippean Satire"”.
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Radical Empowerment and Evolution in Fay Weldon’s Menippean Satire: The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1983)
… thesis explores Fay Weldon’s implementation of Menippean satire in her 1983 novel, <em>The Life and Loves of a She-Devil. </em>The present discussion argues Weldon utilizes this specific satiric mode within her novel in order to convey a story of radical female empowerment and evolution that …
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Alice: uma aventura intersemiótica sob o olhar da sátira menipéia
… written texts to the filmic under the gaze of menippean satire, comic-serious genre that mixes fantasy and satire to ridicule behavioral patterns and social conventions. This paper, therefore, aims to analyze the presence of menippean satire in books and its translation into film production.
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Lost in Menippea: the metabiography of Dambudzo Marechera
… written in the form of creative metabiography. Menippean satire, or menippea, is fundamental to the execution of the metabiography. I draw on Menippean heterogeneity to narrativise Marechera’s life and experiment with various forms and styles of writing. This menippean ‘medley’ includes …
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Orderly Disorder: Rhetoric and Imitation in Spenser's Three Beast Poems from the Complaints Volume
Spenser's Complaints volume is a Menippean satire, a form characterized by mixture. Within this mixture of forms and voices, the three beast poems, Virgils Gnat, Prosopopoia or Mother Hubberds Tale, and Muiopotmos are unified by shared traditions in Classical Aesopic beast fable and medieval beast …
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'Erewhon; Or, Over the Range' by Samuel Butler: A Scholarly Edition
… positioned it squarely within the traditions of Menippean satire and British intellectual culture; this edition situates 'Erewhon' in its colonial context for the first time, stressing its debt to Butler’s movement between the centre and margin of Britain’s expanding empire. The General …
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Poetry and Philosophy in Boethius and Dante
… through the modern, but inadequate, category of Menippean satire and through accessus ad auctores in the medieval commentary tradition on Boethius and related authors; and the conception of intertextuality used in the study, which is connected to both the practice of allegory and Boethius’ …
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"X-rays" of self and society : Dambudzo Marechera's avant-gardism and its implications for debates concerning Zimbabwean literature and culture
… realism, the carnival, magical realism, and Menippean satire), I maintain that his experiments are not without strategy, but that they address pertinent literary, social, political, and cultural issues. The thesis furthermore attempts to show how the 'individualism' -- for which Marechera has …
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Ludvig Holberg's mobile novel Niels Klim's travels underground (1741-1745) : a functionalistic approach to its place in European literary history
… text has been categorised amongst others Menippean satire and an imaginary voyage, but as the first, Niels Klim is extremely late in European literary history, and as the second, it is unique in the way it plays with the Classical tradition. Thirdly, compared to one of its most commonly …
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L'a(rche)tipico Brian O'Nolan. Comico e riso dalla tradizione al post-
… M.Keith Bookerâ��s Flann O'Brien, Bakhtin and Menippean Satire (Booker 1995), Keith Hopperâ��s Flann O'Brien: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Post-Modernist (Hopper 1995) and Monique Gallagherâ��s Flann O'Brien, Myles et les autres (Gallagher 1998). There have also been a couple of …