...been used as a central reference by Bakhtin (Rabelais and His World) and Kristeva.23 The Menippean deals less with people as such than with mental attitudes....approach to life as distinct from their social behavior. Petronius, Apuleius, Rabelais, Swift, and Voltaire all use a loosejointed narrative form often confused...

..."anatomy." 60 His elaboration of its conventions is less formal than characterological: The Menippean satire deals less with people as such than with mental attitudes....approach to life as distinct from their social behavior. 61 Frye argues that an extreme form of anatomy is the presentation of "a vision of the world in terms...

...genres. The genre in question is the Menippean satire. According to Northrop Frye, the Menippean satire "deals less with people as such than with mental attitudes....occupational approach to life as distinct from their social behaviour."25 The citizens of the town of K on Calf 1sland in Rushdie's Grimus may be said to belong...

...soll, bleibt schleierhaft. 26 Relihan(1993), 3. 27 ebd., 4. 28 Frye (1971), 309: "The Menippean satire deals less with people as such than with mental attitudes....approach to life as distinct from their social behavior. The Menippean satire thus resembles the confession in its ability to handle abstract ideas and theories,...

...tradition, and they have defined it better than anyone else. According to Frye, The Menippean satire deals less with people as such than with mental attitudes....approach to life as distinct from their social behavior. The Menippean satire thus resembles the confession in its ability to handle abstract ideas and theories,...

...Lucian, Petronius, Apuleius, Erasmus, Rabelais, Swift, and Peacock are its adepts: The Menippean satire deals less with people as such than with mental attitudes....professional men of all kinds, are handled in terms of their 'humor' or ruling passion, their occupational approach to life as distinct from their social behavior....

...one of its recurrent features (seen in Peacock) is the use of incidental verse. The Menippean satire deals less with people as such than with mental attitudes....approach to life as distinct from their social behavior. The Menippean satire thus resembles the confession in its ability to handle abstract ideas and theories,...

...with mental attitudes. Pedants, . . . cranks, . . . rapacious and incompetent professional men . . . are handled in terms of their occupational approach...to life as distinct from their social behavior.... The novelist sees evil and folly as social diseases, but the Menippean satirist sees them as diseases...

...Bakhtin, he uses in a rather loose sense). Here are some of his remarks about this: The Menippean satire deals less with people as such than with mental attitudes....occupational approach to life as distinct from their social behaviour [I am not sure that I grasp the point of this sentence: EC]. The Menippean satire thus resembles...

...mythical mode." 21 This all-encompassing form finds its secular variant in Menippean satire, which deals less with people as such than with mental attitudes:...approach to life as distinct from their social behavior. The Menippean satire thus resembles the confession in its ability to handle abstract ideas and theories,...