Menippea

English

Etymology

Menippean +‎ -a

Noun

Menippea (uncountable)

1. Menippean satire.
   • 1993, José I. Suárez, The Carnival Stage: Vicentine Comedy Within the Serio-comic Mode, →ISBN:

     The Menippea did not lose its impact in the chaotic centuries that followed the fall of Rome.

   • 2015, Eric McLuhan, Cynic Satire, →ISBN, page 38:

     Her awareness of the Menippea is presented in terms of (descriptive) content analysis and comparison, and she neglects the interaction of the satire with its audience.

   • 2017, Paul N. Reinsch, B. Lynn Whitfield, Robert G. Weiner, Python beyond Python: Critical Engagements with Culture, →ISBN, page 100:

     The Menippean satire—or Menippea— takes its name from the philosopher Menippus of Gadara (third century BC) to identify a particular kind (or genre) of writing that was to evolve during the Classical period through the work of Varro (first century BC) and various other writers and, in Bakhtin's words "in its ancient phase culminates in De Consolatione Philosophy of Boethius. Nevertheless, despite its ancient origins Bakhtin employs the principle of the Menippea as a means of identifying and discussing the work of later writers -- specifically Dostoevsky.