01966nam 2200493 450 991081910190332120240131163454.01-4438-8299-2(CKB)3710000000485903(EBL)4534799(MiAaPQ)EBC4534799(Au-PeEL)EBL4534799(CaPaEBR)ebr11215816(CaONFJC)MIL838947(OCoLC)924625896(FINmELB)ELB148674(EXLCZ)99371000000048590320160623h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierCynic satire /Eric McLuhanNewcastle upon Tyne, England :Cambridge Scholars Publishing,2015.©20151 online resource (262 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4438-7760-3 Includes bibliographical references.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 SatireHistoryMythologyParodies, imitations, etcSatireHistory.Mythology808.87McLuhan Eric143814MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819101903321Cynic satire3948178UNINA