Musgrave, David.

Grotesque Anatomies : Menippean Satire since the Renaissance. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (244 pages)

Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER ONE -- CHAPTER TWO -- CHAPTER THREE -- CHAPTER FOUR -- CHAPTER FIVE -- CHAPTER SIX -- CHAPTER SEVEN -- BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Grotesque Anatomies is a study of Menippean satire in English since the Renaissance. It consists of revisionist, close readings of canonical works such as Eliot’s The Waste Land and Pope’s Dunciad among others, and investigates how identifying them as Menippean satires changes our understanding of them. The initial chapter offers a comprehensive account of the form from antiquity to the present day, identifying its bifurcated development in the shorter form (Seneca-Lucian-Julian) and the long.

9781443869201


Satire, English -- History and criticism.


Electronic books.

PR931 -- .M874 2014eb

827.009