THE LI TERATURE

OF SATI RE
CHARLES A. KNI GHT
Emeritus Professor of English
University of Massachusetts Boston
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Contents
Acknowledgments page viii
Introduction: the satiric frame of mind 1
part i. sati ri c boundari es
1. Imaginations Cerberus 13
2. Satiric nationalism 50
3. Satiric exile 81
part ii. sati ri c forms
4. Satire as performance 119
5. Horatian performances 156
6. Satire and the novel 203
7. Satire and the press: the Battle of Dunkirk 233
8. White snow and black magic: Karl Kraus and the press 251
Conclusion 270
Notes 273
Bibliography 302
Index 320
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