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Satyre Ménippée or Satire Ménippée (sätēr` mānēpā`), anonymous French political pamphlet (1st ed. 1594) circulated in Paris in the 1590s. A brilliant lampoon attacking the leaders of the League at the 1593 States-General, it helped sway Parisian opinion to the side of Henry IV. A canon, Le Roy, had the principal part in writing it. The title of the lampoon derives from Saturae Menippeae, lost work of Varro based on satires by the Greek cynic Menippus. |
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| He accepts Joel Relihan's argument in Ancient Menippean Satire (1993) that Menippean satire is characterized by a provocative mixture of forms (poetry and prose), a fantastic narrative, profound parody, and the ridicule of learning. Huckleberry Finn is a Menippean satire, a form which, in the words of Northrop Frye," deals less with people as people as such than with mental attitudes," and "presents us with a vision of the world in terms of a single intellectual pattern. The novel, in fact, contains all of the important features of Menippean satire -- monologue curses, bathos, non -- sequitur and encyclopedic knowledge. |
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Menippean satire
