EN 3193 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Menippean Satire, A Modest Proposal, Mad Tea Party
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A lot of attention to music in the film, animals and flowers are singing; we read that that is what happens. Children understand the easy things; adults look at the background subtleties. An image from the film and distinguishing between the two mediums could be on the final exam. While j and h satire are in verse forms, that has changed in modernity; Menippean satire started as prose/novelistic with some verse bits: poetry is part of the making fun aspect of the story, not by accident and not just for the delight of poetry. Easy to assume that this text is simple when taken at face value. Re-read parts of the text, focusing on banquet/eating scenes or verse scenes; verse was considered the top tier of literary abilities particularly that of tragedies, even above poetry. Pseudonym: charles dodgson, lewis carroll was used mainly for his (cid:449)ork i(cid:374) (cid:272)hildre(cid:374)"s literature to prote(cid:272)t the author if the(cid:455) have another profession.
