Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Subtexts All Around Us -- 2 The Rhetoric of Figured Speech -- 3 The Hermeneutics of Suspicion -- 4 Risks and Safeguards of Interpretation -- 5 Greek Pretenses About Rome -- 6 An Ox on the Tongue -- 7 Sexorama -- 8 What About Being Frank? -- 9 Catalog of Further Examples and Practices -- A Final Word -- Translator's Note on Citations -- Notes -- Index