The form was revived during the Renaissance by Erasmus, Burton, and Laurence Sterne,[REF] while 19thC examples include the John Buncle of Thomas Amory and The Doctor of Robert Southey [REF].
Marshall McLuhan also made extensive use of Menippean satire, as he himself suggested: "Most of my writing is Menippean satire, presenting the actual surface of the world we live in as a ludicrous image."[REF] .