Cynic satire / Eric McLuhan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McLuhan, Eric, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Satire--History.

Satire.

Mythology--Parodies, imitations, etc.

Mythology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Summary:

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 fail because the form is determinedly fluid and polymorphous, and playful: it shifts its mode of attack with every change in culture

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

Part I: Compass Bearings

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Part II: Concept and Percept

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Part III: Menippism and Cynicism

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Digression

Chapter Nine

Part IV: Cynic Satire and Tradition

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Part V: Make it New-Yourself

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Afterword

Appendix

Bibliography of Works Cited.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 21, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4438-8299-2

OCLC:

924625896