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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The Postfeminist Masquerade and the Cynical Male Gaze: The Disavowal of Sexual Difference in Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves by Tamas NAGYPAL

“…By contrast, this paper argues that the heroine is rather trapped in what Angela McRobbie called the postfeminist masquerade, a feminine gender performance that returns to old forms of patriarchal subordination but with an ironic distance, thereby allowing the subject to imagine herself free of the capture of the masculine symbolic universe. …”
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Flann O’Brien’s Anti-Manifestos by Julian HANNA

“…The manifesto of intertextuality in At Swim-Two-Birds (1939), meanwhile, is more complex: while it appears to be in some ways a sincere statement about the novel as a whole, it is also intensely ironic and self-mocking. But that only deepens its relation to the manifestos of the preceding decades, which frequently undercut their own purpose in the midst of their performance.…”
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Vernacular language in Firouz Shahnameh by Mohammad Bighami by زهرا سیدیزدی, فرزانه حکیمی پور

“…The results of this research showed that ironic expressions were the most frequent among other colloquial elements of FirouzShahnameh.…”
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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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Gambaran Mindfulness pada Atlet Senam Artistik Putri Jawa Timur by Alya Afani, Afif Kurniawan

“…Teori ironic mental processes menjelaskan tantangan yang sering dihadapi atlet elit yakni kesulitan mengontrol proses kognitif meski telah melakukan upaya mental sebelumnya yang dapat menyebabkan adanya penurunan performa. …”
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Reading “Guillelme l’Amïable”: Hypertextuality and La Prise d’Orange by Lucas Wood

“…The Old French epic poem La Prise d’Orange (late 12th-early 13th c.) systematically treats the conventional motifs, narrative patterns, characters and style of the chanson de geste with a comedic irreverence and an ironic distance that have led it to be labeled “the courtly parody of an epic,” but the text remains fundamentally organized by the generic paradigm from which it pointedly deviates. …”
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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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Coups de pieds en talons hauts : politiques du corps et performancescapes dans les scènes drag et ballroom grecques contemporaines by Natalia Koutsougera, Amalia Maria Kontou

“…These constructed realities draw on an almost postmodernist, post-ironic take on of Greek pop culture, beauty standards and politics. …”
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“I Have Worn No Shoes upon This Holy Ground”: Hebrew and Religious Authority in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Poems (1838, 1844) by Gal Manor

“…Finally, the appearances of Hebrew in her works constitute what Derrida terms a poetic Shibboleth, meant to define who is to be accepted into the realm of sacred poetry and who is to be left out. Ironically, it is the anxiety around this double-edged Shibboleth that ultimately brings about the disappearance of Hebrew letters from EBB’s poems written after 1844.…”
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An Artist among the Puritans:Challenging a Cultural Image in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter by Michèle BONNET

“…It shows how, in his typically ironic style, Hawthorne covertly subverts New England’s critical view of the artist who, rather than being an alleged agent of social disruption, turns out to be the cement of the community, indeed a « necessary » element. …”
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“Explaining Is Where We All Get Into Trouble”: Anti-Philosophical Philosophies in Richard Ford’s Bascombe Novels by Nicholas Manning

“…Far from proposing the United States as an anti-philosophical culture, these discourses, as fictional incarnations of an ironic Socratic archetype, rather explore ways in which modes of reticence against philosophy, construed at once as an institution, mode of discourse, and epistemological method, are themselves explicitly philosophical positionings.…”
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„Sprache macht den Freigang der Gedanken möglich“. Zu den sprichwörtlichen Aphorismen von Franz Hodjak by Wolfgang Mieder

“…Such anti-proverbs express his humorous, ironic or cynical view of modern life. That is also the case with numerous proverbial expressions whose metaphors add an impressive expressiveness to his thoughts. …”
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Giusepe Tommasi Lampedusa: History and time in Il Gattopardo by Clara Corona

“…Author of one novel, The Leopard, whose premises and whose echoes and intertextual references are also tracking down the handful of stories and especially in La Sirena and in autobiographical memory, just other titles of his limited body of literature, and in this sense in fact the author of one book significantly written in the point of death, Lampedusa reworks the story of a Sicilian aristocratic family in the twenty years 1860-80, against the background of the Italian Risorgimento, his family experiences electing Sicily Don Fabrizio Salina universal metaphor the fragile and ephemeral human story that crosses the historical time. The ironic and at the same time tragic spirit of Lampedusa-Salina, the feeling of death and the intimate disenchantment with the "magnificent and progressive" fortunes in the history of man, Giuseppe Tomasi reconnects to the highest Sicilian literary line…”
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Theatre and Psychoanalysis: or Jung on Martin Crimp's Stage: “100 Words” by Solange Ayache

“…Our point is that this “collage” of disarticulated words inserted by Crimp into the dialogue of three anonymous art critics ironically emphasizes the absence of the main character, the suicidal artist, and her refusal to undergo “treatment.” …”
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‘Savages’ and Spiritual Engines: Feeling the Machine in H. G. Wells’s Time Machine and ‘Lord of the Dynamos’ by Tamara Ketabgian

“…Although Paley’s star faded in the later nineteenth century, his discourse persists in alternate, technophilic forms—in what Wells calls the technological ‘patter’ of his own science fiction. Wells ironizes and aestheticizes these mechanical models of belief, both in his eponymous ‘time machine’ (1894–95) and in ‘The Lord of the Dynamos’ (1894), which restages Paley’s analogy with a ‘savage’ worshipping the industrial engine. …”
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Theory of Elementary Contribution to Profit Transformation in the Concept of the Company and a Platform for the Realization of Islamic Banking by Sayed Amrollah Hoseini, Mohammad Zarei Mahmoudabadi

“…It means combining rights and properties in a way that cannot be.distinguished. which may be achieved due to optional means such as contract, menstruation, mixing or coercive means such as inheritance, mixing and the like.In this case, the matter is limited to those cases in which the combination is possible.Therefore, things like the company's debt, interests, actions and credits, which are ironically common in today's economy and banking, are out of the scope of the company. …”
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Bottom-Up Approach Ship Emission Inventory in Port of Incheon Based on VTS Data by Hyangsook Lee, Hoang T. Pham, Maowei Chen, Sangho Choo

“…Then, based on calculated emission inventory, this study suggested and simulated applicable green policies in the practice: (1) local emission control area realization, (2) vessel speed reduction program, (3) application of cold ironing, and (4) establishment of a national integrated emission platform. …”
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Linguistic methods of personality identification in the fiction text (using S.D. Dovlatov's works) by A.V. Bastrikov, E.M. Bastrikova

“…Dovlatov, a popular short-stories writer who became famous in the 1990s for his ironical word view and “sharp” language style. We have analyzed one of the basic concepts of almost all linguistic world views, the concept of “my group’s own — someone else’s” (“a friend – a foe”), which is implemented in the text in the form of several lexical-semantic groups. …”
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