Publication: Rereading Pope’s The Dunciad
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Thoughts
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Rereading Pope’s The Dunciad
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This paper studies the interaction between the prose portion and the verse portion of the variorum edition of Alexander Pope’s The New Dunciad and its indebtedness to the tradition of Menippean satire. Then, it uses Bakhtin’s theory of the carnivalesque and James Frazer’s Saturnalian myth to explain how miseducation leads to corruptions in different domains of culture and eventually the annihilation of civilization in The New Dunciad.