The Literature of Satire

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction: the satiric frame of mind......Page 13
representing democritus: the satiric frame of mind......Page 14
the shape of this study......Page 20
part i Satiric boundaries......Page 23
satiric definitions......Page 25
defining as metaphor......Page 27
Satyroi......Page 30
Lanx saturae......Page 32
Farcimen......Page 36
Lex per Saturam......Page 37
lucian: the boundaries of discourse......Page 39
satiric disguising......Page 43
satire and the imitation of action......Page 45
satire and the imitation of language......Page 47
satire and mimesis......Page 50
the rhetoric of mimesis: the basic triad......Page 52
Contact: the phatic function......Page 55
Code: the metalingual function......Page 56
Context: the referential function......Page 57
satiric ideas......Page 60
satire and history......Page 62
satire and nationalism......Page 65
satire and propaganda......Page 71
graphic images......Page 73
simple satiric nationalism: manipulated images......Page 74
complex satiric nationalism: manipulated observers......Page 76
gulliver’s imagined communities......Page 79
the complexity of montesquieu’s lettres persanes......Page 85
satiric subversion......Page 90
chapter 3 Satiric exile......Page 93
the dislocated voices......Page 99
the false orders......Page 106
the troubled lands......Page 121
part ii Satiric forms......Page 129
chapter 4 Satire as performance......Page 131
the alchemist......Page 132
le tartuffe and le misanthrope......Page 141
ostrovsky......Page 155
brecht......Page 161
poetic performances......Page 168
the mediating speaker......Page 170
the saturnalian speaker......Page 173
the shifting scene......Page 176
the mock-heroic......Page 182
the shifting speaker......Page 194
overlapping genres......Page 215
satire and the individual consciousness......Page 219
the menippean novel......Page 228
shifting phases......Page 236
chapter 7 Satire and the press: the Battle of Dunkirk......Page 245
kraus as satirist......Page 263
kraus and code......Page 270
kraus and the press......Page 277
Conclusion......Page 282
1 imagination’s cerberus......Page 285
2 satiric nationalism......Page 289
3 satiric exile......Page 294
4 satire as performance......Page 297
5 horatian performances......Page 300
6 satire and the novel......Page 306
7 satire and the press: the battle of dunkirk......Page 308
8 white snow and black magic: karl kraus and the press......Page 311
PRIMARY SOURCES......Page 314
SECONDARY SOURCES......Page 317
Index......Page 332