Cynic Satire

by Eric McLuhan

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1443877603
• ISBN13: 9781443877602
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.2"