"menippea" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1992, Thomas Jemielity, Satire and the Hebrew Prophets, →ISBN, page 65:",
          "text": "A consequence of this universalism is the appearance in the menippea of what Bakhtin calls the three-planed construction of earth, Olympus, and the nether world.",
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          "ref": "2004, David Sandner, Fantastic Literature: A Critical Reader, →ISBN, page 120:",
          "text": "Typical for the menippea is syncrisis (that is, juxtaposition) of precisely such stripped-down \"ultimate positions in the world.\"",
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          "ref": "2009, Harold Bloom, Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky, →ISBN, page 48:",
          "text": "The entire medieval development of the menippea is permeated with elements of local carnival folklore and reflects the specific features characteristic of various periods in the Middle Ages.",
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