Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: the satiric frame of mind -- representing democritus: the satiric frame of mind -- the shape of this study -- part i Satiric boundaries -- chapter 1 Imagination's Cerberus -- satiric definitions -- defining as metaphor -- Satyroi -- Lanx saturae -- Farcimen -- Lex per Saturam -- lucian: the boundaries of discourse -- satiric disguising -- satire and the imitation of action -- satire and the imitation of language -- satire and mimesis -- the rhetoric of mimesis: the basic triad -- Contact: the phatic function -- Code: the metalingual function -- Context: the referential function -- satiric ideas -- chapter 2 Satiric nationalism -- satire and history -- satire and nationalism -- satire and propaganda -- graphic images -- simple satiric nationalism: manipulated images -- complex satiric nationalism: manipulated observers -- gulliver's imagined communities -- the complexity of montesquieu's lettres persanes -- satiric subversion -- chapter 3 Satiric exile -- the dislocated voices -- the false orders -- the troubled lands -- part ii Satiric forms -- chapter 4 Satire as performance -- the alchemist -- le tartuffe and le misanthrope -- ostrovsky -- brecht -- chapter 5 Horatian performances -- poetic performances -- the mediating speaker -- the saturnalian speaker -- the shifting scene -- the mock-heroic -- the shifting speaker -- chapter 6 Satire and the novel -- overlapping genres -- satire and the individual consciousness -- the menippean novel -- shifting phases -- chapter 7 Satire and the press: the Battle of Dunkirk -- chapter 8 White snow and black magic: Karl Kraus and the press -- kraus as satirist -- kraus and code -- kraus and the press -- Conclusion -- Notes -- introduction: the satiric frame of mind -- 1 imagination's cerberus.

2 satiric nationalism -- 3 satiric exile -- 4 satire as performance -- 5 horatian performances -- 6 satire and the novel -- 7 satire and the press: the battle of dunkirk -- 8 white snow and black magic: karl kraus and the press -- Bibliography -- PRIMARY SOURCES -- SECONDARY SOURCES -- Index.