In this article it will be argued that the Menippean satire (broadly understood in Bakhtinian terms) provides a most, if not the most, significant formal and perhaps historical context for reading the Babylonian Talmud (ca. sixth century after Christ). Some theoretical considerations on the role of agency in dialogism (intertextuality) are lifted up as well.

Ali Akbar Dehkhoda, the prominent lexicographer, describes a person who has difficulty in grasping knowledge as someone who “Cannot understand something without knowing all its details.” If the knowledge required by somebody is in a language other than the person’s mother tongue, access to this knowledge will surely meet special difficulties resulting from the person’s lack of mastery over the ...

The visual quality of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, together with its popular and folkloric ingredients, has greatly contributed to the novel’s immediate transmedial reception was central success during so-called “golden age” satire in British Isles. Starting end eighteenth century, caricaturists transformed work into a symbol society’s mechanisms structures. Indeed, frequent nineteenth-...