Art and the ‘Second Darkness’ by Catherine Lanone

“…He describes the Bloomsbury legacy in terms of aesthetic change, such as Virginia Woolf’s rhythmical sensuous prose or Lytton Strachey’s ironic, revolutionary biographies. But he also helps us to define this legacy in more political terms, as the ethos of art and personal relationships was confronted with the rise of fascism. …”
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Esthétique du kitsch et ruralité dans le cinéma irlandais by Isabelle Le Corff

“…From the end of the 1970s there is an ironic slip of this representation. Indigenous filmmakers foster the iconography of the cottage with a new sense of irony, in the spirit of Camp, to castigate conservative national values. …”
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L’horreur acoustique musiques « anempathiques » dans le théâtre de Martin Crimp by Aloysia Rousseau

“…The British playwright Martin Crimp suggests an ironic use of music and sounds in his stage directions. …”
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Mexicanidad und Ironie durch die Revolution hindurch. Kompositionsstrategien in und diskursive Konstellationen um Revueltas’ Janitzio by Jonas Reichert

“…It is argued that Revueltas’ ironic dissociation from nacionalismo is simultaneously a dialectical participation in the construction of a ‘Mexican’ cultural identity (mexicanidad).…”
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Mrs Erlynne, Forms, Functions and Figures of Negation in Oscar Wilde’s Society Comedies by Jacqueline Fromonot

“…Others, mostly outcasts or adventurers, but also inside outsiders, resent society as it is and bring chaos in this outwardly well-ordered, but basically corrupted and hypocritical cosmos. Their ironical and iconoclastic stances boil down to the polemic negation of values, to arouse laughter but more profoundly to assess their relevance. …”
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Le « dedans » et le « dehors » by Estelle Mouton-Rovira

“…Literary criticism, through the hierarchies and conventions that it conveys, is especially mocked, and reconsidered, by these - often ironical - fictions. Such texts renew the approach to reading experience, as literary texts produce themselves a critical thought about hermeneutics.…”
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Sujets d’Histoire : les renaissances de L’Éducation sentimentale by Judith Frömmer

“…As a narrative principle and structure of the Histoire d’un jeune homme staged by the L’Éducation sentimentale, the role of the Renaissance goes beyond an ironic performance of a 19th century trend (which actually brought into being the Renaissance as a historical epoch). …”
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Apocalyptic groups and socially disadvantaged contexts by P. G. R. de Villiers

“…The article then concludes with an investigation of material that, ironically, indicates that apocalypses generally reflect a learned hermeneutical movement wishing to discover the ongoing relevance of sacred traditions in new situations. …”
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The Security Needs of International Students: An Analysis in Terms of the Securitization Theory by Arda ÖZKAN, Gülşah TAŞÇI

“…In some states, these students are considered a potential threat to national security and subject to various inequalities of opportunity, however, ironically, the states do not adequately address the higher education policies regarding the security needs of international students. …”
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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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O ícone e o palhaço ou Quando Mazzaropi encena Lampião by Cristina Duarte-Simoes

“…In a very different register from the one usually proposed by Brazilian cinema, O Lamparina –conceived and played by Amácio Mazzaropi– breaks off with the tragic or dramatic tone of prior productions, proposing a cangaceiro character integrated in an ironic and comic context, unused till then.…”
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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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Risk, Disappointment and Distraction in Keith Gessen’s All the Sad Young Literary Men by James Peacock

“…This article explores the ways in which Gessen seems ironically to make writing the opposite of risk in an increasingly risky world. …”
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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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Don Quijote und Rosenkreuz. Die Chymische Hochzeit als alchemokritischer Ritterroman by Carlos Gilly

“…What is more, there is substantial evidence that –taking example of the Spanish model he had before him – Andreae also conceived of his Chymical Wedding as an ironic chivalric romance directed against the alchemists.…”
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De l’usage de l’intertexte biblique dans quelques poèmes de George Herbert et de John Donne by Jean-Louis Breteau

“…“Easter Wings” and “Prayer I” can be seen to exemplify Herbert’s so-called “plain”, but in fact very elaborate, writing, while “Good Friday” and “At the round earth’s imagined corners” illustrate Donne’s paradoxical and ironical ways.…”
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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. …”

Charles Péguy vu par Geoffrey Hill by Josette Leray

“…Hill feels drawn towards his idealism but he acknowledges its dangers and uses an ironic distance to counterbalance it. He investigates the concept of heroism and at the same time that of innocence, an innocence which is aware of tragedy. …”
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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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