‘I should like to see a woman smoking while she was nursing her baby’: The New Woman, Crossdressing, and Humour in Horace William Bleackley’s Une Culotte (1894) by Mariam Zarif

“…First I suggest that humour is generated in the novel by the New Woman protagonist’s comic attacks of the rigid construction of gender differences. …”
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Fossils and Theories of Evolution in Gustave Flaubert’s Bouvard et Pécuchet by Anthony Zielonka

“…This paper proposes a close textual analysis of Chapter III of the masterpiece of comic and satirical fiction that is Gustave Flaubert’s last novel, Bouvard et Pécuchet (1881). …”
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Los microrrelatos cómicos y picarescos en la novela barroca: Céspedes y Meneses, Castillo Solórzano y Castelblanco by Christine Marguet

“…This article examines the presence of comical and/or picaresque micro-structures in spanish baroque novels with aristocratic protagonism –the novelistic equivalent of «courtship» short novels–. …”
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‘Bang-whang-whang goes the drum’ : Robert Browning ou l’énergie comique de l’homme-orchestre by Yann Tholoniat

“…However, rereading today Browning’s poems through the prism of Freud’s theory of pleasure as a release of tension allows one to show Browning’s comical energy as it irrepressibly surfaces in his dramatic monologues. …”
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Prozaiczna codzienność superbohaterów, czyli analiza komiksowej serii Karla Ferdona by Justyna Czaja

“…The article discusses a parody comic series by Chilean cartoonist Karlo Ferdon which depicts American superheroes in prosaic day-to-day situations. …”
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Le « style jeune » : les discours sur les modes de la jeunesse dans les hebdomadaires des années 50 by Sixtine Audebert

“…Due to the americanisation of the French society, the journalists switch from the comic tradition of the chansonniers, imbued with fusty contempt for the young people, to the moral panic register, contributing to romanticize the generation gap.…”
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'Maus' y 'El arte de volar': dos representaciones paradigmáticas del universo concentracionario by Carmen García Navarro

“… La conjunción de lo visual y lo textual ofrece en el cómic una particular visión de la representación ficcional del referente histórico. …”
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Miss-Taken Identities: The Comedy of Misrecognition in New Woman Short Stories by Margaret D. Stetz

“…This essay will illuminate a surprisingly common trope in British New Woman comic short stories from the late-1880s through the end of the nineteenth century—that is, the social misrecognition of women (almost always young women) by men. …”
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Социальная и политическая сатира в романе В. Аксенова „Остров Крым” by Antoni Murawski

“…The author of this article presents a variety of aspects concerning the meaning of comic elements that were used by the writer to show the dissonance between reality and the idealistic as well as subjective perception of a difficult political and social environment.…”
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‘Laugh a defiance, Laugh in hope’: Suffrage Comedy and Humour as Political Protest by Eleanor Stewart

“…Within the ritualized framework of the comic genre, the suffrage dramatists use self-derision to provoke empathy and encourage derisory laughter towards their detractors. …”
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Johannes Climacus e o pensador subjetivo existente. A categoria trágico-cômica da linguagem indireta by Ana Alice Matiello Coelho

“…Since that double reflection revisits the concepts of the tragic and the comic, of seriousness and jest, albeit from a different perspective, we can understand the importance of such communication for indirect language, whose objective is to communicate an absolute contradiction.…”
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The Institutionalization of Political Humor as a Form of Reflection by S. S. Melnikov

“…In the course of research we found that comic interpretation of politics became feasible due to the legislative fixation of individual rights as a part of modern political culture. …”
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La bande dessinée pour construire une mémoire des « mille jours » de l’Unité populaire au Chili by Elsa Marsande

“…The richness of the comic book format makes it possible to portray Chile from 1971 to 1973, from the implementation to the failure of the project led by Salvador Allende. …”
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Analiza tržišta i prodajnih cijena karbon kredita sa fokusom na sektor šumarstva by Dragan Čomić, Branko Glavonjić, Sabina Delić

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Les mots étrangers, les mots de l’étranger by Jean-Jacques Lecercle

“…The essay assesses the linguistic situation of the exile, a potentially comic figure, with intimations of tragedy (the exclusion of the foreign speaker as linguistic pharmakos), but also of liberation (the standard language is most alive when minorised by foreign words). …”
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« La langue bien pendue ». Pour une nouvelle traduction de Mafalda by Claire Latxague

“…This paper presents some thoughts about traces of historical context and manifestations of political compromise in this classic comic strip, created by Quino and initially published in the Argentinian press between 1964 and 1973. …”
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Opowiedz mi "Miasto narysowane". O translinearnej możliwości poznawania Lublina z bliska by Jakub Jankowski

“…The aim of the exercise proposed in this article is to closely read five comic books about Lublin, looking for translinear connections between them. …”
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Рунглийский язык и автоответчик: приемы комического в рассказах Юрия Дружникова by Galina Niefagina

“…allows one to draw a conclusion that the basic comic means are: at a composition level – the story construction (by using the joke principle), presenting a situation as an actual event and its addition or specification at the level of style – metaphor or phraseological unit, specification, a concrete definition of citations, popular expressions, and at the language level – a mixture of different languages – Runglish.…”
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Nice Work de David Lodge : Un « Condition of England novel » des années 1980 ? by Armelle Parey

“…More than a mere transposition, Nice Work turns out to be an open rewriting of the Victorian novels quoted in epigraphs since the text, with its comical aspect and its auto-reflexive dimension, distances itself from realism. …”
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Lucille Ball, the Queen of Show Business versus Lucy Ricardo, the Failed Actress by Aurélie Blot

“…Most American people, all generations taken into account, remember Lucille Ball as a great comic figure of the Fifties. Nonetheless, just a few people remember her as one of the most powerful women of her time. …”
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