The Difference Satire MakesOffering both the first major revision of satiric rhetoric in decades and a critical account of the modern history of satire criticism, Fredric V. Bogel maintains that the central structure of the satiric mode has been misunderstood. Devoting attention to Augustan satiric texts and other examples of satirefrom writings by Ben Jonson and Lord Byron to recent performance artBogel finds a complicated interaction between identification and distance,