menippea

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Noun

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menippea (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of Menippea
    • 1992, Thomas Jemielity, Satire and the Hebrew Prophets, →ISBN, page 65:
      A consequence of this universalism is the appearance in the menippea of what Bakhtin calls the three-planed construction of earth, Olympus, and the nether world.
    • 2004, David Sandner, Fantastic Literature: A Critical Reader, →ISBN, page 120:
      Typical for the menippea is syncrisis (that is, juxtaposition) of precisely such stripped-down "ultimate positions in the world."
    • 2009, Harold Bloom, Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky, →ISBN, page 48:
      The entire medieval development of the menippea is permeated with elements of local carnival folklore and reflects the specific features characteristic of various periods in the Middle Ages.

Italian

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Adjective

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menippea

  1. feminine singular of menippeo