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; chapter 1 Imagination's Cerberus; chapter 2 Satiric...
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Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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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; chapter 1 Imagination's Cerberus; chapter 2 Satiric nationalism; chapter 3 Satiric exile; chapter 4 Satire as performance; chapter 5 Horatian performances; chapter 6 Satire and the novel; chapter 7 Satire and the press: the Battle of Dunkirk; chapter 8 White snow and black magic: Karl Kraus and the press; Conclusion; Notes; introduction: the satiric frame of mind; 1 imagination's cerberus. This is an accessible but sophisticated study of satire from the classics to the present in verse, plays, novels, and the press. Knight provides illuminating readings of a wide range of writers and sheds new light on the nature and functions of satire as a mode of writing