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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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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Une mise en cause du contrôle des « nomades » (Tsiganes) relatif à la loi du 16 juillet 1912 : résistances et détournements by Emmanuel Filhol

“…They consisted for instance in the non-renewal of anthropometric notebooks, in the concealment of their license plates, or in critical and ironic comments. This article will also address the issue of whether, within the public authorities, those in charge of application of this legislation were critical of it and contributed to limiting excess.…”
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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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Nancy w Krainie Wieprzy. Kilka uwag o "Co?" Romana Polańskiego i recepcji filmu we Włoszech by Katarzyna Skórska

“…Despite not very favorable general reception immediately after the premiere and later in time, the film was appreciated by Italian critics who admired its intertextual values, self-citations and references to Italian cinema, such as ironic allusions to commedia all’italiana, or Federico Fellini’s works and oneiric atmosphere. …”
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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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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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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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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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“aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaambition makes you look [pretty] ugly”: Mass consumption and computer-generated art in Radiohead’s OK Computer by François Hugonnier

“…A man-machine relationship is developed as a socio-political metaphor and a straightforward report, including the use of computers in the crafting of their art. In spite of its ironic playfulness, OK Computer will not escape the commercial and technological mutations it scrutinizes: it is therefore acknowledging, in a performative way, the computer’s win over the band’s scope and music. …”
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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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„…читая в ногу души прекрасные порывы”: смех аутсайдера и русский ХХ век в Неизвестных письмах Олега Юрьева... by Ievgeniia Voloshchuk

“…Yuryev’s ironic reflections on the Russian historical reality and literary scene of the 20th century manifest themselves at different levels, from the positioning of outsiders’ laughter in relation to the official and marginal hierarchies of the literary canon to the postmodernist play with the traditions of literary classics. …”
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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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Keats et de Kooning : Pour un romantisme expressionniste abstrait ou la mise en image de l’épitaphe by Caroline Bertonèche

“…Close in many other ways, despite chronological and geographical differences, the two inspired artists meet around their creative intermingling of the picturesque and the poetic: the rhythmic liquidity, the verse schemes, the chiaroscuros, the ‘dripping’ technique, the ‘erasures’, the fading colours… Keats’s strangely melancholic but also deeply ironic and contrasted lyricism meets de Kooning’s mixed style of painting, torn as it is between the realms of tradition and novelty, of figurative and abstract art. …”
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A Study on Sistani Satirical Proverbs by Fatemeh Elhami

“…The results of this study showed that the common speech in most proverbs and local adages of Sistani people is satirical, ironic and sarcastic language which is resided pleasantly in the most summarized speech.…”
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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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