Topic: One Night @ the Call Center as a Menippean Satire.

Name : Solanki Binita M.

Roll No : 04

Paper No : 13

Subject : The New Literature.

Course: M.A., Semester: 4.

P.G. Enrollment No : PG13101031.

Year :2014-2015.

Email ID: solankibinita84@gmail.com.

Submitted to : Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University.

(Department of English).

What will you learn ?

Meaning of Menippean Satire.

Characteristics of the Menippean Satire.

How One Night @ the Call Center as a Menippean Satire.?

Meaning of Menippean Satire.

The genre of Menippean satire is a form

of satire, usually in prose, which has a

length and structure similar to a novel and

is characterized by attacking mental

attitudes rather than specific individuals or

entities.

chiefly in ancient Greek literature and latin

literature

Menippean satire plays a special role

in Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the novel

Characteristics of the Menippean Satire.

It is usually more comic than Socratic dialogue.

It is unusually free (from history, realism, and

legend) and hence fantastic.

Its fantasies create extraordinary situations for

the purpose of testing philosophical truth,

especially through the manipulation of

perspective.

It mixes the fantastic, symbolic, and even quasi-

religious with a "crude slum naturalism."

It is full of contradictory behavior and characters.

Scandal, eccentricities, inappropriate speech, violations

of politeness and social expectations are very

characteristic.

It combines elements of social utopia with other satiric

elements.

It inserts a variety of other genres, often to parody them.

Hence it is "multi-styled" and "multi-toned."

It is concerned with current topics. "The satires of

Lucian, taken as a group, are an entire encyclopedia of

his times"

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How One Night @ the Call Center as a Menippean

Satire.?

In One Night @ the call Center find characteristic of Menippean Satire.

In the novel present the current situation of the society.

Chetan Bhagat show the real situation of the people.

Chetan Bhagat also critics the society.

Example…

Gulliver Travels in we see that characteristic of

Menippean Satire.

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Military Uncle.

Boss of the call center.

Love, Mother-in-low.

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Episode of God.

God Call the all character.

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