Bed-trick and forced marriages. Shakespeare’s distortion of romantic comedy motifs in Measure for Measure by Frédérique Fouassier

“…But these motifs are treated in an ironical way and seen through a distorting mirror. …”
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Dangerous Conversations in The Duchess of Malfi by John Gillies

“…The result is a moral ambiguity which is difficult to square with virtue ethics, and which calls for a reading in terms of the totalitarian contexts of the revenge play and the Tacitean history play then gaining ascendancy in Jacobean England. Ironically the Duchess is restored to her honesty by conversing with her murderer at the climax of the play.…”
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Madame Bovary et ses trente-quatre « vous », ou le retour du refoulé by Alain Vaillant

“…His readers, or more often his female readers: for the close analysis of these thirty-four occurrences proves not only that the recollection of romantic lyricism, even ironized, hovers over Flaubert’s writing, but that the author has a hard time dissimulating his male identity, then addressing his subtle analyst’s explanations to an audience of women: obviously impersonality has strict limits, those of genre (or gender).…”
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L’obsession médiatique de Flaubert by Alain Vaillant

“…But this obsession reflects, more than the ironic idiosyncrasy of its author, on the one hand the real balance of power that is established between the press and literature (to the detriment of the latter), and on the other hand an ideology that is very commonly shared by writers who want to remain outside the new media culture. …”
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Book review: Residential child care: prospects and challenges Andrew Kendrick, Editor by Irene Stevens

“…Excellent evidence-based discussions on restraint, peer violence and the use of secure accommodation are generally lacking in this area which is often, ironically, one where practitioners and policy makers seek most guidance. …”

FROM THE 1964 CABINET CRISIS TO THE 2014 CABINET IN MALAWI: by Q Jere

“…Seven weeks into independence a cabinet crisis occured where some ministers were dismissed, while others resigned in support of their fired colleagues. Ironically, the Church kept a low profile and did hardly anything to intervene. …”
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Les Montand-Signoret jouent Arthur Miller. La première française des Sorcières de Salem by Julie Vatain-Corfdir

“…Looking at a combination of factors – the actors’ personalities, Rouleau’s realistic directing, Aymé’s efficient but ironic adaptation, and the press’s tendency to universalize The Crucible’s political stakes – I attempt to define the modalities of the play’s introduction in France, between enthusiasm and reluctance, recognition of its narrative qualities and distrust of its literary merits.…”
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MEASURING NOISE LEVEL IN THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY by CLAUDIA TOMOZEI, ALEXANDRA PIPA, OANA IRIMIA, MIRELA PANAINTE-LEHADUS, FLORIN NEDEFF

“…Based on the results of the measurements made, the noise map for both tailoring rooms was prepared: the tailor room and the ironing - stapled - packing section. According to the obtained results, the noise level values within the company Sonoma Trading SRL do not exceed the maximum allowed imposed by the legislation in force. …”
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MULTIMODAL HUMOUR ON OVERPOPULATION IN JOEL PETT’S ENVIRONMENTAL CARTOONS by Živilė Nemickienė, Dovilė Urbonienė, Julija Zabielinaitė

“…The analysis explores the role, interaction and synergic effect of verbal and visual modes in constructing an ironic attitude towards the negligence of urgent global issues. …”
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SCHWARZ BIN ICH UND SCHÖN – RHETORISCHE IRONIE IM HOHELIED1 by S Fischer

“… BLACK AM I AND BEAUTIFUL – RHETORICAL IRONY IN SONG OF SONGS This article argues for an ironic understanding of Song of Songs 1:5-6. The linguistic irony carries a second meaning contrary to the first more obvious one, being expressed as verbal and situational irony. …”
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THE PECULIARITIES OF HEGEL'S ETHICS by Rūta Marija Marija Vabalaitė

“…The third aspect consists in the notion of the means of moral education. Hegel speaks ironically of unfounded and futile moralising, of the criticism of present morals from the point of view of proper one, that is invented but does not exist. …”
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Pukka English and the Language of the Other in E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India by Catherine Lanone

“…Forster opts instead for a deconstruction of the English attempt to appropriate Indian signifiers as a token language positing the superiority of the Raj. Ironically subverting the use of signifiers like « pukka », Forster seeks to open up the text to the very otherness of Indian culture, moving beyond the annihilating echo of the caves to enhance what McBratney sees as the voice of the subaltern in the text, through the orality of songs. …”
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La littérature populaire du Kailyard, substrat nécessaire à la Renaissance écossaise by Jean Berton

“…After examining the main trend in the criticism of the Kailyard, it has been decided to bypass the usual English point of view so as to better appreciate the ironical tone of those texts deserving a study of what they are rather than what they should be. …”
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Antiguos actores de un nuevo régimen: indígenas y afrodescendientes en el Paraguay de la Independencia by Ignacio Telesca, Guillermo Wilde

“…It is our contention that in those previous decades can be found some clues to understand the meaning of the responses indigenous and African descent population adopted toward the processes of independence in Paraguay and, ironically, their rapid vanishing from the official records…”
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Tess of the d’Urbervilles du roman à l’écran : les ambiguïtés du point de vue by Isabelle Gadoin

“…Indeed, Hardy’s narrators, at least in his late fiction, are tantalisingly ambiguous, and tend to act in two highly contradictory ways : appealing to the reader’s sympathy and pity for the plight of the protagonist, while simultaneously undermining this involvement through the critical or ironical interventions of the obtrusive narrator. Hardy’s late fiction can definitely be labelled as « modern » in that it both encourages and defeats narrative illusion, particularly in Tess of the d’Urbervilles, which wavers between fleeting moments of identification with the heroine’s point of view (thanks to internal focalisation) and narratorial corrections of these subjective « moments of vision », to take up the title of later poems. …”
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The Music and (dis)harmony of (anti)utopia in Samuel Butler’s Erewhon by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

“…Lastly, the article will deal with the narrator’s unstable stance and views, which, together with the generic and tonal hybridity of the text and its ironic logic, alternating between satire and (anti)utopia, make the novel go through a series of perplexing ideological fluctuations. …”
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Poetry as Pagan Pilgrimage: the ‘Animative Impulse’ of Thomas Hardy’s Verse by Laurence Estanove

“…The poem ‛Aquae Sulis’ illustrates this by staging an ironic reunion of the Pagan and Christian traditions—‛images both’—while testifying to the ‛animative impulse’ of Hardy’s poetry that reconciles metaphorical discourse with living experience.…”
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Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage Induced by Vaping by Michael Agustin, Michele Yamamoto, Felix Cabrera, Ricardo Eusebio

“…There has been a significant increase in electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) use since its introduction in 2007. Ironically, there remains very few published literature on the respiratory complications of e-cigarettes. …”
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Les voyages dans les ghost stories de Montagu Rhodes James : à la découverte d’horizons inattendus by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

“…All five characters experience something terrifying, descend into literal and metaphoric depths, and one of them even meets his death because of it. But ironically, even if the things or creatures that menace them initially seem alien to them, they turn out to be part of them, as in Freud’s uncanny.…”
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The Architectural Photomontages of Piero Bottoni by Fabio Colonnese

“…In this sense, the analysis of some of his photomontages, which are today preserved in the Archivio Piero Bottoni (APB) at the Milan Polytechnic, reveals both his intent to introduce an anti-academic, ironic and realistic language, as well as the importance of cinema as an original source for architectural communication. …”
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