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 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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Zabawa czy afekt? O ideologicznym uwikłaniu twórczości Wiktora Pielewina by Andrzej Polak

“…The former accuse him of an overly skeptical attitude to the Western model of life, while the latter do not like the writer’s ironic approach to social reality, polemics with Russian values and attempts to discredit them. …”
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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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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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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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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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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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L’excès dans la fiction de Wilkie Collins by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

“…Both men are ill, marginal, stand for eccentricity and excess, and occasionally act as Collins’s mouthpieces, too.The writer’s ironic and subversive use of these characters to promote « happy endings » may therefore be regarded as another kind of excess.…”
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White Magic, Black Humour: Ella D’Arcy’s Narrative Strategies by Heather Marcovitch

“…We see D’Arcy adopting this ironic pose as she tries to keep The Yellow Book on schedule in the aftermath of Oscar Wilde’s arrest, and as she copes with Harland’s regular tantrums and Lane’s indifference. …”
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Pekić's paradoxology and Serbian identity by Stanojević Dobrivoje Ž.

“…Pekić's search for Serbian identity, with a special reference to immanent paradoxology in this novel, was achieved through a series of related ironic-parodical procedures that lead to a deeper insight into the changes and the constants of Serbian identity. …”
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Mockery as a special type of laugher in the prose of Leonid Andreev by Alisa V. Mytareva

“…Propp, who argued that the object of ridicule can be everything except the area of suffering, Leonid Andreev constructs a model of the anti-world, where it is the area of suffering that is ridiculed. The ironic state of the world in relation to the hero ( Suitcases ) is perceived as unstable, and therefore unsafe. …”
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Kissing the Church Bell or Ringing the Church Bell? (About a verse of the ode of “Tarsaeiyeh”) by Majid Mansouri

“…The main complexity of the verse in question is the reference that "kissing the church bell" has the ironic meaning of becoming an infidel and leaving the religion of Islam.The main problem in Khaqani's verse is that "kissing the church bell" does not occur in any of the old texts, and unlike kissing the crucifix, "kissing the church bell" was never widespread in Christianity; In addition to the various statements of the commentators of Khaqani's collection of poems, two detailed articles have exclusively dealt with this topic; the first article is about the proposal to correct "Kissing the church bell" to "Drinking the church bell" and the second defends the authenticity of the recording of "kissing the church bell" and rejects the first article. …”
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Implicit Forms of Ethnic Insult for Europeans (as Found in Rhyming Slang) by E. Y. Gorshunova, Y. V. Gorshunov

“…Since Rh.sl. is subject to a strong influence of the word play and its items are perceived as humorous and ironic nominations, they are not always discerned as offensive by the English speakers. …”
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The Old Woman’s Farcical Rejuvenation in The Rejuvenation of Miss Semaphore (1897) by Somi Ahn

“…Initially, the middle-class protagonist and her sister appear as old-fashioned Old Women at the beginning, but once the former unexpectedly turns into an infant, she indeed gets pushed out of a social safety net, as babyfarmers illegally adopt and abuse her. Eccles creates an ironic situation where the Old Women rejuvenate metaphorically into radical New Woman activists, who raise their own voice to fight against the given system of the world, in which unmarried women and their unwanted children are constantly marginalized. …”
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