{"product_id":"menippean-satire-and-the-poetics-daniel-walden-9780820424996","title":"Menippean Satire and the Poetics of Wit: Ideologies of Self-Consciousness in Dunton, d'Urfey, and Sterne","description":"Despite the prominence given to it recently by Mikhail Bakhtin and Northrop Frye, Menippean satire remains a neglected and misunderstood genre. Focusing on the eighteenth-century writers John Dunton, Thomas D'Urfey, and Laurence Sterne, \u003ci\u003eMenippean Satire and the Poetics of Wit\u003c\/i\u003e explores the excesses of these eccentric, transgressive writers who take their readers to the limits of language. As the outlaw of genre, Menippean satire exploits the improprieties supplied by a self-conscious use of wit, the principle of exuberance in eighteenth-century poetics. In fact, the exuberance of wit produces Menippean satire's central paradox that self-conscious writers lose their identity in the very pursuit of it. By tracing wit's exuberance through its abusive metaphors, or catachreses, to the abusive ideologies of class and gender, this genre-study provides a literary tradition for the postmodern deconstructive project, including the work of Jacques Derrida.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Walden,Garry H. Sherbert\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820424994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820424996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 226\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Daniel Walden","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48483718136063,"sku":"9780820424996","price":67.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5646c7a5-eaab-4eb2-b75c-b70a72486887.jpg?v=1778040204","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/menippean-satire-and-the-poetics-daniel-walden-9780820424996","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}