person
also known as Kristeva
The critic whose Desire in Language (late 1960s), in Bob's dialogue 24 lineage, took up Bakhtin and carried "Menippean" into wide circulation. Kristeva is the last link before the term's surprising reappearance in McLuhan — she is why "Menippean satire" was a recognizable critical category by the time Theall and Eric McLuhan were using it of the Wake and the moderns.
Across the dialogues
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Enters as the populariser — her Desire in Language, responding to Bakhtin, is what brings "Menippean satire" into general critical use
Kristeva is the populariser — her response to Bakhtin in Desire in Language moved "Menippean satire" from a specialist's word into a term general criticism could carry.
"Julia Kristeva did a book in the late 60s, Desire in Language, responding to Bakhtin."
Connections
responds toMikhail Bakhtin
Desire in Language takes up Bakhtin and carries "Menippean" into late-1960s criticism.
popularizesMenippean Satire
Kristeva's book is what put the term into wide critical circulation.