The ambiguous relation between verbal irony understanding and need for cognitive closure: Reports from two studies by Branowska Katarzyna, Koziński Konrad

“…Moreover, in both studies, the ratings of playfulness, criticism, and flattery of ironic statements were analyzed.…”
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That was clever of you! Perspectives and verbal irony by Pfeifer Valeria A., Mehl Matthias R., Lai Vicky Tzuyin

“…What does ironic language indicate about an emotional state? …”
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La figure de la comparaison chez Flaubert by Nathalie Petibon

“…The evidence shows that, for Flaubert, comparisons constitute both an ironic perspective and a poetic frame.…”
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Ironie et communauté (L’Éducation sentimentale) by Boris Lyon-Caen

“…As delicate as it may be, a stylistics of ironic enunciation must thus be undertaken : the present contribution would like to invite to it...…”
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Maleagi 1:9 - 'n crux interpretum by S. D. Snyman

“…Finally, it is indicated that there is no need to understand the text ironically; it is rather a serious appeal by the prophet directed to the priests. …”
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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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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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“The Weather [to]Day”: Overexposure To and Of the Media in Kenneth Goldsmith’s Work by Hélène Aji

“…This paper interrogates the denial of originality which in actuality initiates a highly original (and ironic) poetic practice.…”
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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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« The Church-Builder » et « The Chapel-Organist » : l'écriture poétique de Thomas Hardy du monologue dramatique au « théâtre de la voix » by Laurence Estanove

“…The poems do not follow the traditional narrative and subjective lines of the Victorian genre, but work towards an ironic rewriting of it, as for the two speakers self-assertion relies on literal self-dramatisation, and paradoxically involves self-destruction. …”
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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“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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