« À la nouvelle du désastre… » : rumeurs et sociabilité ordinaire en temps de crise (Flaubert, Zola) by Bertrand Marquer

“…This novelistic choice, which differs from contemporary theories of rumour (considered as a pathological phenomenon), is part of the satire, and reflects the evolution of a society now led by Opinion.…”
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Généalogie générique du monologue dramatiquebrowningnien ; et du monopolylogue by Yann Tholoniat

“…But in order to reassess Robert Browning’s achievement, one might trace a line starting with Aristophanes’ dramatic use of the parabasis, evolving with the Roman satire, and going through John Donne’s game with the reader, conceived of as a silent auditor. …”
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“Insular hobbits”? Englishness, Euroscepticism and the Brexit vote in Jonathan Coe’s Middle England (2018) by Guillaume Clément

“…Among other factors, Coe’s satire draws our attention to contemporary representations of Britishness in media and popular culture, for instance in the London 2012 Olympic games’ opening ceremony, with its quite stereotypical, anglocentric portrayal of national identity. …”
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Истори я как предмет пародии в „Диалектике Переходного Времени” Виктора Пелевина by Roman Szubin

“…The author of this article points to Pelevin’s two main creative strategies: his use of satire which is connected with the representation of history and his inclination toward mysticism and esotericism. …”
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Robida’s Mormons by Daryl Lee

“…Author-illustrator Albert Robida depicted the “polygamist sect” in venues such as Le Journal amusant and La Caricature, and in two novels, his Jules Verne-inspired Voyages très extraordinaires de Saturnin Farandoul (1879) and the futuristic satire Le Vingtième siècle (1883) set in 1953. In the latter, Robida conflated orientalist stereotypes abounding in accounts of Mormon polygamy and in French salon painting, by removing the Mormons from the Rocky Mountains and transplanting them to Europe in order to think through French preoccupations with geopolitics, colonization, and the role of women in society.…”
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Comment Hollywood figure l’intériorité dans les films « hollywoodiens » de David Lynch, Lost Highway (1997), Mulholland Dr. (2001) et Inland Empire (2006) by David ROCHE

“…The author contends that the films offer more than a satirical representation of a corrupt, unhealthy system which threatens dreams and artistic creativity, or a parodic play on Hollywood genre and narrative conventions. …”
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La cuestión de la limpieza de sangre y la disimulación religiosa en algunos entremeses del siglo xvii : de la burla a la sátira social by Carine Herzig

“…Beyond their purely comic character, many of these plays offer a satire of concrete aspects of social and political life, particularly those related to blood purity and the condition of the old Christian. …”
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Myth-making and Uchronia: The Advent of a Fascist America in Nathanael West’s A Cool Million (1934) by Frank Conesa

“…Nathanael West’s A Cool Million (1934) has been largely viewed as both a deadpan parody of the «Rags to Riches» success story popularized by Horatio Alger and a satire on nascent fascism in Depression-era America. …”
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Britannia : Grandeur et infortune d’une allégorie nationale dans l’univers du cartoon britannique 1842-1999 by Gilbert Millat

“…Britannia, sometimes accompanied by the emblematic British Lion, has long been personifying justice, liberty, and the British Empire on coins and stamps as well as in graphic satire. Originally of Roman origin, she became the visual representation of Britain after being revived in the sixteenth century. …”
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The analysis of social application of irony varieties in Atar-e- Nishaburi’sMosibatname by Hassan Soltani kohbanani, kamyar saydi

“…There are many equivalent terms such as sarcasm, satire, quip, ridicule, etc. for it. But not of these equivalents are a comprehensive definition for it. …”
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Newman et la conscience dans son roman Callista et dans son sermon « Ce qui dispose à la foi » by Michel Durand

“…Whilst Loss and Gain (1848) can in no way be described as autobiographical it certainly contains, alongside the author’s brilliant satire of Oxford at the time of the Tractarian Movement, elements of his own experience of conversion to Catholicism. …”
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Newman polémiste et satiriste by Keith Beaumont

“…Newman is widely recognized in the English-speaking world as one of its great satirical authors (though it has to be admitted that his subtle irony sometimes escapes the translators of his work into other languages, notably French !). …”
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Challenging power through social media by Rodwell Makombe, Grace Temiloluwa Agbede

“…The article argues that internet memes of the “Mugabe fall” express subversive views that undermine the regime through humour, exaggeration, satire and other stylistic devices. Internet memes present an alternative discourse that counters the official narrative promoted by the regime. …”
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Pink Stockings, Yellow Stockings: the Use of Pink-Yellow in Marston and Shakespeare by Anita BUTLER

“…John Marston (c. 1576-1634), William Shakespeare’s younger contemporary, wrote plays such as The Malcontent (c. 1604) that are performed today: his satirical comedy What You Will (published 1607) is not one of these. …”
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“For mine is the bitter, the ale and the lager”: Parodic prayer and the spirituality of humour by A. Houck

“…This article reviews that history, showing that medieval parodic prayers arose from within the Church and often expressed ethical concerns through satire. They could also go further, speaking to the relationship with God that is at the heart of Christian spirituality. …”
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Barrès contre Ruskin by Jessica Desclaux

“…However Barrès resisted Ruskin’s ideas, due to his interest in the Italian Renaissance, to his greater affinity with the tastes and sensibility of Walter Pater and of Stendhal, and also maybe as a reaction to fashion, as his satire of Ruskin’s pilgrims shows. To respond to Ruskin, he didn’t write a theoretical essay on art, but he inserted in novel or travel writing short polemical meditations. …”
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Usages du futurisme médical en Chine pré-républicaine : craniotomie et régénération dans deux récits de science-fiction (1904-1905). by Florine Leplâtre

“…This leads to a redefinition of issues at stake in science-fiction, between fascination for technology and satire of contemporary fantasies.…”
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Komischer Diskurs: kognitiv und kulturbedingt by Oksana Zubach

“…A significant subject in the broad field of discourse was and still is the area of the comic (humor, jokes, satire). The article accepts relevant criteria (sociological, psycholinguistic, communicative, pragmatic, gender-sensitive, etc.) that reflect the expression of humorous elements in the German language and culture. …”
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