GRGR(6) - Ep. 15 Reader Dissonance.

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

How does Kharpertain classify GR? Menippean Satire or some hybrid? What novels
or short stories does he classify as Menippean satire? Or doesn't he?

Thank in advance

Terrance

"Derek C. Maus" wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, rj wrote:
>
> > But I first ran across the term applied to Pynchon's fiction in one or
> > more of the standard critical texts even earlier than this (1983-4ish).
>
> Not the first, but the best reference source in re: Menippean Satire and
> Pynchon is Theodore Kharpertian's _A Hand to Turn the Time:  The Menippean
> Satires of Thomas Pynchon_ (London: Associated University Presses, 1990).
>
> Opening fifty pages deal with the slippery nature of the term in a
> historical and critical context. Damn fine book.
>
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