AGTD & Genre as History

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So I finally look up Mennippean. 
Satire of ideas not people.

That ole Canadian Reader, Northrop Frye, said "anatomy" ala Burton's might be a better
Term and that other Canadian, known to TRP, Marshall McLuhan, says just about
All his work might be seen as Mennippean satire.
From Wikipedia

Against the Day does it more than about all the examples, even TRP's earlier.
Just sayin'



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On Feb 17, 2013, at 2:56 PM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:

> so, been reading thru that collection _A Corrupted Pigrim's Guide_,
> and it confirms what I have long held about the P, that is, that his
> work is about work, and in writing about the history of labor, it
> seems fitting that P work in the tradition, a positive parodic
> postmodernism has its roots deep in the American tradition or parody
> thus contextualized. So, Poe and Hawthorne, and of course, Melville.
> And so, it is to the anatomy, the satirical, the humor, the respose,
> that we must look to discover deeper meanings.
> 
> This takes some doing. An example of how it gets done on Melville.
> 
> http://english.columbia.edu/herman-melville