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This book claims that the text can be read as a unified whole rather than as episodic jumble, despite its fragmentation.
Presented as disturbing as well as comic, intricately structured as well as chaotic, the study asserts that the Satyricon's imagery constantly mirrors apparent paradoxes. Thus corporeality is explored as a metaphor rather than just as an index of the "low" genre of the novel.
Contents Acknowledg ments Abbreviations Introduction Corporealities 1 Rhetorical red herrings 2 Behind the scenes 3 The beast within 4 From the horse's mouth 5 Bella intestina 6 Regurgitating Polyphemus 7 Scars of knowledge 8 How to eat Virgil 9 Ghost stories 10 Decomposing rhythms Conclusion Licence and labyrinths APPENDIX I The use of fundere and cognates in the Satyricon APPENDIX II The occurrence of fortuna or Fortuna in the Satyricon APPENDIX III Aen. 4.39 at Sat. 112: nec venit in mentem, quorum consederis arvis? Bibliography Index of passages discussed Index of subjects
