Satire and the Threat of Speech

Contents

Acknowledgments.........................................................................vii Introduction: Satire and the Threat of Speech...........................................3 1. The Limits of Satire, Iam satis est: Satires 1.1-3...................................19 2. Horace and His Fathers: Satires 1.4 and 1.6..........................................38 3. Practicing Theory, or, Perils of the Open Road: Satires 1.5..........................59 4. Satire as Conflict Irresolution: Satires 1.7.........................................77 5. Talking Heads and Canidian Poetics: Satires 1.8......................................90 6. Auditor-Adiutor: Satires 1.9.........................................................108 7. Unsatisfying Fulfillments: Satires 1.10 and the End of Satires 1.....................127 Notes...................................................................................147 Bibliography............................................................................167 Index.... ... read full excerpt from Satire and the Threat of Speech: Horace's Satires, Book 1 ebook