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Author Musgrave, David, 1965-

Title Grotesque Anatomies : Menippean Satire since the Renaissance.

Publication Info. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (244 pages)
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Summary 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 ...
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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Subject Satire -- History and criticism.
Satire.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Musgrave, David. Grotesque Anatomies : Menippean Satire since the Renaissance. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2014 9781443856775
ISBN 9781443869201 (electronic book)
1443869201 (electronic book)
9781443856775