"With Eyes Upside Down, Can We Still Read?"

Bakhtin positions Menippean satire, not as a historical practice of antiquity, but as a modern mode of narrative in which a grotesquely comic character ridicules ("carnivalizes") the world of propriety. [...] when one of the giants in the novel pees onto Paris, he floods the city, dius threatening the social power of the monarchy of France.\n In production courses, they are given the opportunity to make short five to ten minute films. [...] an imaginative intertextual method allows the seemingly unrelated Reflections on Black and "The Enormous Radio" to be brought into each other's orbit in order to show how experimental film and a New Yorker short story dovetail in their presentation of post-war, middle-class, marital alienation.