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Author: David Musgrave

Grotesque Anatomies is a study of Menippean satire in English since the Renaissance. It consists of revisionist, close readings of canonical works such as Eliot’s The Waste Land and Pope’s Dunciad among others, and investigates how identifying them as Menippean satires changes our understanding of them. The initial chapter offers a comprehensive account of the form from antiquity to the present day, identifying its bifurcated development in the shorter form (Seneca-Lucian-Julian) and the longer, more encylopedic form (Varro-Petronius-Boethius), and their subsequent fusion during the Renaissance. It also contains an account of the critical reception of the genre, with the term ‘Menippean satire’ first being used by Justus Lipsius in 1581. Finally, Menippean satire is described as a literary version of the grotesque, and a brief theory of the grotesque in the modern period as ‘radical heterogeneity’ is outlined. This is also the foundation of a new definition of Menippean satire, drawing on previous definitions by Frye, Bakhtin and Kirk, and revising them for the modern period. The following chapters examine iconic works as examples of Menippean satire and of the grotesque. Chapter 2 offers an overview of the nose in Menippean satire and comic literature generally, and reads Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children in this context. It also gives an account of metaphor as a ‘grotesque transformation’. Chapter 3 examines the figure of the stomach in Menippean satire and symposiastic literature, and reads Peacock’s Gryll Grange in this context. The link between the stomach as a figure of thinking in comic literature is the basis for an account of symbolic structuring as ‘grotesque association’. Chapter 4 is a close reading of the scatological imagery of Pope’s Dunciad, and how scatology generally tends towards a cyclical metaphysics. It also relates changes in print technology and copyright laws to the reticular scatological structure of the Dunciad. Chapter 5 argues for Eliot’s The Waste Land as a Menippean satire, focusing on the rhetorical figure of the enthymeme as a missing premise, as an example of ‘under-mindedness’ and as an ironic aspect of the fragmentation typical of late Romantic Menippean satires. Chapter 6 examines Urquhart’s eccentric The Jewel as a satire on the referential function of language, reading it in the context of projections for a universal language from this period. The final chapter identifies some key works by Derrida and Barthes as Menippean satires, noting the resurgence of the form in some postmodern and deconstructive writing.

Grotesque Anatomies Menippean Satire since the Renaissance 1st Edition Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Menippean Satire in the Renaissance

Rebirth of the Genre: The Influence of Classical Satire
Rabelais and the Birth of the Grotesque
The Role of Humanism in Shaping Satirical Forms
Early Renaissance Menippean Satire: From Erasmus to Montaigne

Chapter 2: The Grotesque Body and Social Critique

The Grotesque as a Lens for Social Commentary
The Body as a Site of Satirical Dissection
Medical and Philosophical Satire in Renaissance Menippean Works
Exploring the Limits of Human Experience

Chapter 3: The Rise of the Modern Menippean Satire

Satirical Revolutions: From Swift to Sterne
The Influence of Renaissance Menippea on Modern Authors
The Grotesque in Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
Sterne’s Tristram Shandy and the Evolution of Satirical Form

Chapter 4: The Twentieth Century and the Evolution of the Grotesque

Modernism and the Menippean Tradition
The Postmodern Grotesque: From Kafka to Vonnegut
Literary and Cultural Shifts in Menippean Satire
The Question of Morality and Meaning in the Grotesque

Chapter 5: Political and Philosophical Implications of the Grotesque

The Political Power of Menippean Satire
Philosophical Reflections on the Grotesque Body
Parody, Satire, and the Question of Truth
From Nietzsche to Foucault: Philosophy and the Grotesque

Chapter 6: The Grotesque and the Contemporary Novel

Postmodern Menippean Satire in Contemporary Fiction
The Role of Technology, Media, and Globalization in Shaping Modern Satire
The Grotesque as a Cultural Reflection in 21st Century Literature
Case Studies: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin, White Teeth by Zadie Smith

Chapter 7: Beyond Literature: The Grotesque in Visual Culture