A Measure for Menippean Discourse: The Example of Shakespeare.

Presents a study which established a taxonomy that isolates and identifies the major colligatory motifs that constitute Menippean discourse. Application of the generic analysis of Garry Sherbet, Mikhail Bakhtin's cultural-historical view of Menippean texts and the taxonomic work of Eugene Kirk, Joe...

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Publicado en:Poetics Today Vol. 23; no. 2; pp. 291 - 327
Autores principales: Milowicki, Edward J., Wilson, Robert Rawdon
Formato: Literary Criticism
Publicado: Duke University Press Summer2002
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Sumario:Presents a study which established a taxonomy that isolates and identifies the major colligatory motifs that constitute Menippean discourse. Application of the generic analysis of Garry Sherbet, Mikhail Bakhtin's cultural-historical view of Menippean texts and the taxonomic work of Eugene Kirk, Joel C. Relihan and W. Scott Blanchard; Significance of the epithet 'Menippean'; Analysis of how William Shakespeare uses different Menippean motifs to develop ideas and characters.