| 单词 | menippean satire |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMenippean satire Characteristic of, exhibiting, or resembling the style of satirical writing associated with Menippus, esp. in the use of parody or burlesque and the mixture of different styles or genres. Usually in Menippean satire.The works of Menippus himself are lost, but his style was imitated by the 1st-century b.c. Roman writer Varro (see Varronian adj.), whose Saturae Menippeae themselves gave rise to many imitations. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [adjective] > relating to or characteristic of specific writer Lucianical1561 Xenophontean1593 Sidneian1599 Anastasian1621 Theophrastical1662 Menippean1693 Varronian1693 Herodotean1748 Shaftesburian1752 Cervantic1760 Alfredian1762 Swiftian1762 Richardsonian1763 Pepysian1765 Rabelaica1768 Rabelaisian1769 Johnsonian1775 Radcliffian1801 Southeyan1817 Lucianic1820 Xenophontic1822 Thucydidean1826 Walter Scottish1827 Voltairean1833 Juvenalian1839 Dickens-like1841 Dickensian1842 Voltairish1842 Hazlittian1844 Theocritean1846 Dickensish1849 Ruskinian1850 Ruskinesque1854 Dickensy1855 Dickenesque1856 Macaulayesque1856 Ruskinite1856 Thackerayan1857 Ruskinese1863 Macaulayish1865 Walpolian1867 Dickensesque1868 Voltairianized1872 Baconian1874 Balzacian1874 Morrisian1879 Isidorian1882 Poe-like1882 Peacockian1886 Poe-esque1886 Zolaesque1886 Macaulayan1887 Bunyanesque1888 Fieldingesque1888 Junian1888 Meredithian1888 Tacitean1890 Hugoesque1893 Hardyesque1894 Kiplingesque1894 Shawian1894 Maeterlinckian1895 Dickinsonian1896 Stevensonian1897 Austenish1898 Austenian1901 Leverish1903 Pateresque1903 Trollopian1903 Malorian1904 Shavian1904 Brontesque1905 Chestertonian1905 Jamesian1905 Leveresque1905 Jacobean1906 Carrollese1907 Hardyan1907 Stendhalian1907 Turgenevian1908 Ouidaesque1909 Galsworthian1912 Poeish1915 Paterian1918 Sitwellian1920 Conradian1921 Mallarméan1924 Theophrastian1924 Wildean1924 Pirandellian1925 Proustian1925 Flaubertian1926 Wodehousian1926 Joycean1927 Stracheyan1927 Theophrastic1928 Yeatsian1928 Lawrentian1930 Firbankian1931 Melvillean1931 Leavisite1934 Runyonesque1934 Kafka1936 Woolfian1936 Twainian1938 Rilkean1939 Audenesque1940 Hemingwayesque1942 Brontëan1945 Kafkaesque1947 Leavisian1947 Morrisan1949 Orwellian1950 Faulknerian1951 Hemingwayan1951 Greeneian1952 Arnoldian1953 Thurberesque1954 Tolkienian1954 Beckettian1958 Hemingwayish1959 Nabokovian1959 Pinteresque1960 Pinterish1960 Vernean1960 Waughian1960 Bradleian1961 Gravesian1961 Kafkian1962 Jules Vernean1964 Snovian1966 Pinterian1967 Lucianesque1969 Tolkienesque1970 Thoreauvian1975 Stubbsian1979 1693 J. Dryden in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires Ded. p. xxvii 'Tis that which we call the Varronian Satire, but which Varro himself calls the Menippean. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Menippean, or Satyra Menippea. It is thus call'd from Menippas, a Cynic Philosopher, who delighted in composing Satyrical Letters, &c. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XI. 388/1 Menippean,..a kind of satire consisting of prose and verse intermixed. It is thus called from Menippus a cynic philosopher. 1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia at Menippus He wrote some snarlish satires, for which reason writings of that stamp have been sometimes called Menippean. 1878 Princeton Rev. Jan.–June 638 A whole line of satirical spirits who attack the same enemy—authors of Menippean satire, Molière with his ‘Tartuffe,’ and many others. 1908 W. P. Dickson tr. T. Mommsen Hist. Rome V. 488 It resulted both from the nature of the Cynical philosophy and from the temperament of Varro, that the Menippean lash was very specially plied round the ears of the philosophers. 1976 M. McLuhan Let. 3 Feb. (1987) 517 Most of my writing is Menippean satire, presenting the actual surface of the world we live in as a ludicrous image. 1985 Rev. Eng. Stud. Feb. 131 The book is enlivening because of the consciously unstuffy ‘menippean’ quality in its ‘clashes of genre and changes of tone’. < as lemmas |
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