Representing Irishness in Words and Images ; Erskine Nicol’s Illustrations of Tales of Irish Life and Character by Amélie Dochy

“…We will also dwell on the mechanisms of humour in both the text and the paintings and examine how, by resorting to comedy verging on caricature, Nicol creates characters who were deemed as “typical” by the Victorian public while offering a subjective definition of Irish identity.…”
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La recomposition des savoirs au Maghreb à l’époque de la coopération by Jean-Robert Henry

“…The desire for a renewed approach did not avoid caricature and dogmatism. Indeed, a theoretical universalism intended as replacement for discriminating colonialist discourse, vested itself in a more or less modernized Marxist vulgate of the economy, sociology, linguistics, law, anthropology. …”
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Parallel Universes? Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For (1983-2008) and Diane DiMassa’s Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist (1991-1996) by Hélène Tison

“…DiMassa presents a caricatured, degraded version of US society, focusing on its relation to minorities, as seen through the eyes of a “homicidal lesbian terrorist” intent on reclaiming their right to exist in the world. …”
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‘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

“…While the New Woman was often mocked and caricatured as a mannish and destructive figure in the late Victorian press, New Woman writers also used humour to attack the status quo and parry ridicule with ridicule. …”
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‘Woman Suffrage Precipice’: The Gender Politics of Laughter in Elizabeth Robins’s The Convert (1907) by Nathalie Saudo-Welby

“…Indeed, since the New Woman was commonly a target for caricature, the suffragette a laughing stock, and feminist demonstrations were considered as enjoyable as “good Sunday afternoon street entertainment”, The Convert turned this tendency to its advantage and used humour as a sweetener for the serious pill it contains, in accordance with the received idea that women are born entertainers. …”
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Standing at Cultural Crossroads: Erskine Nicol’s Representations of Ireland by Amélie Dochy

“…Néanmoins, certaines compositions de Nicol s’éloignent du style écossais pour adopter un mode plus caricatural, notamment dans les années 1850, ou encore réaliste, en particulier dans les œuvres évoquant la vie quotidienne des Irlandais. …”
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The Impact of Job Demands and Resources on Overtime Work and Work-Related Health among Employees of The Isfahan Metro Company by Zohre Sharei, Shahin Ebrahimi

“…To collect the required information, Spence and Robbin’s (1992) Addiction Questionnaire, Lodahl and Kejner’s (1965), Langseth-Eide’s (2019) Perceived Health-Related Questionnaire, and Bryson Bangers’ Caricature Content (1998) were distributed and supplemented based on a Likert scale. …”
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Qu’est-ce que problématiser ? Genèses d’un paradigme by Michel Fabre

“…Comment éviter qu’elle ne se dilue et se caricature ? Il semble nécessaire de remonter à la question radicale : qu’est-ce que problématiser ? …”
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Multimodal Media Tools of Popular Geopolitics: Russian Politics in Foreign Media Cartoons by N. K. Radina

“…Hall’s concept of propaganda, considering the text of a caricature from semiotic perspective. The integration of the theoretical fields of popular geopolitics and propaganda is substantiated, since political cartoons not only form stereotypes about politics and international relations among media readers, but also perform propaganda functions, broadcasting the point of view of the information platform on Russian politics and Russia. …”
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