Menippean Satire Reconsidered: From Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century »

Howard D. Weinbrot is the Ricardo Quintana Professor of English and William Freeman Vilas Research Professor in the College of Letters and Science, University of Wisconsin—Madison.

In this magisterial work, Howard D. Weinbrot offers a new and lucid account of Menippean satire. He argues that in the wake of twentieth-century critics, notably Frye and Bakhtin, this complex literary category has been too broadly associated with "philosophic ideas" expressed in dialogic voices or languages and proposes instead more rigorous but fluid criteria that incorporate several key elements.