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- W2980368177 abstract "What kind of book is the Anatomy of Melancholy? Scholars and critics, even those who read the Anatomy literature, do not agree upon this fundamentalquestion. In his Anatomy of Criticism (1957), NorthropFrye designated the book a Menippean satire, but hislead has not been profitably followed. An investigation into the history and poetics of Menippean satire in antiquity and the Renaissance supplies a literary context in which Burton's Anatomy may be situated. Various satires by Lucian, Seneca, and Horace, together with the apocryphal Hippocratic epistles, provided Burton with the models of character and plot in terms of which he framed his seriocomic fiction. In addition, the Renaissance recovery and imitation of Lucian and other classical Menippean authors, by Erasmus and More, among others, entailed the development of themes (for example, folly and utopia) and rhetorical techniques (parody and the rhetorical paradox) which were of further importance to Burton.The Renaissance medical book and the Ramist technical treatise, with which the Anatomy is often placed,furnished Burton with discursive forms which he appropriated to his own purposes. Those purposes are the subject of his satyricall preface, which offers a metafictional commentary on the treatise it precedes. The preface sets forth a series of oppositions at the same time as it collapses the conventional distinctions between them; the antic and the physician, the self and its masks, melancholy and laughter, reader and writer, quotation and originality, sobriety and fantasticality, cause and cure, come together at the limits of human sanity. The treatise proper dramatizes the interplay of these and other looking-glass pairs throughout its exhaustive survey of human life and knowledge.At least one English author has grasped the seriocomicnature of Burton's book: Laurence Sterne, himself astudent and writer of Menippean satire, whose borrowingsfrom the Anatomy in Tristram Shandy demonstrate anappreciation of Burtonis literary strategies." @default.
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