Legal Disputes of Emigrant Periodical Publishers from the End of the 19th Century to 1904 by Remigijus Misiūnas

“…Evaluating the causes of the cases, it is possible to discuss the complicated perception of the satirical genre within the emigrant community of that time. …”
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Cheesecake Manor, Californie : Raymond Chandler entre roman à énigme et roman hard-boiled by Isabelle Boof-Vermesse

“…In a series of parodic variations on preterition, Chandler the essayist claims to demonstrate the vacuous ineptitude of the rival form, but in doing so he reveals inadvertently a secret longing of Chandler the novelist. The satirical impulse is directed against the American imitation of the British form rather than its original version, revealing Chandler’s strategy to avoid the dead end of imitation. …”
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"Recalling-ls-Greatest": Personal Memory and Lyricism in Toyin Falola's A Mouth Sweeter than Salt and Counting the Tiger's Teeth by Felicia Ohwovoriole

“…We have memorial songs, songs of rebellion, songs of sexuality and sa­tirical songs which mock teachers, the police and government officials. …”
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Revisión y reivindicación de las poesías de José Iglesias de la Casa publicadas en la prensa: el caso del Diario de las musas by Noelia López-Souto

“…In particular, the article focuses on the case of Iglesias de la Casa, a Spanish author from the late 18th century and famous for his Poesías póstumas (1793), although towards the end of his life he had already published, some of those anacreontic, amorous-pastoral, and satirical poems in periodical format. By means of a critical methodology and newspaper archival research, this work reviews Iglesias' poetic work in the press and, specifically, his poetic corpus published during his lifetime, as well as his characterization according to the conditions that the medium required. …”
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Didacticism and Philosophical Tenets in Ọbasa’s Poetry by Arinpe Adejumo

“…It is also revealed that satirical elements, especially humor are used to project Yoruba philosophical belief in order to imbue the reader with moral rectitude. …”
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Fossils and Theories of Evolution in Gustave Flaubert’s Bouvard et Pécuchet by Anthony Zielonka

“…This paper proposes a close textual analysis of Chapter III of the masterpiece of comic and satirical fiction that is Gustave Flaubert’s last novel, Bouvard et Pécuchet (1881). …”
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Deconstructing the Politics of Linguistic Mutation in Tom Stoppard’s Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth by Sarra Jouini

“…Stoppard, a Czechoslovakian native, crafted these satirical works in response to the brutal persecution of critical intellectuals and censorship of their dissident works. …”
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Fondling Breasts and Playing Guitar. Textual and Contextual Expressions of a Sociomusical Conflict in Accra by Tobias Robert Klein

“…Its violation by charismatic churches sparked off a fierce debate on the freedom of worship, in which traditional religion quarrels with Africanised congregations, for whom electric guitars, dances and tongue-speaking form part and parcel of their services. A satirical La Kpa song translates this tension into a socio-(e)motional system of movement, mimics and gestures. …”
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Freedom of expression, aspiration and gender: A cultuling in the student demonstration by Siti Nurbayani, Elly Malihah, Millary Agung Widiawaty, Moh. Dede, Bayu Iqbal Anshari, Asep Mahpudz, Erry Sukriah, Sri Wahyuni

“…Speech acts that used creative linguistic strategies, emotional expressions that ranged from anger to satirical critique, and cultural values that reflected complex societal dynamics of power, gender, and social resistance. …”
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Perlocutions of 2024 Indonesian General Election: A Cyberpragmatics Perspective by Nur Lailiyah

“…This study yields the following findings regarding the perlocutions of the 2024 elections: (1) emphasizing sentiments (directly); (2) emphasizing sentiments (indirectly); (3) building misconceptions; (4) determining choices; (5) determining choices (accompanied by invective); (6) displaying neutrality; (7) satirizing (authorities); (8) satirizing (individuals); and (9) fostering turbulence.…”
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Donald Barthelme’s “Report” and Michal Rovner’s Decoy series, or the Ongoing Art of Telling It Slant by Sandrine Dechaume

“…In Barthelme’s short story, the emphasis is on excess and satire, whereas in Rovner’s Gulf War images, media representations of war are deconstructed through the use of overexposed and blurred imagery.…”
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Figures de l’aventurière dans The Eustace Diamonds, d’Anthony Trollope (1873) : le refoulement d’un retour by Jacqueline Fromonot

“…It appears therefore that whereas the Horatian satire prevails in Thackeray, the Trollopian persona’s embittered tone recalls the Juvenalian satire aimed at the fallen world it lives in.…”
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‘I roll my cigarette, and cycle to my club’: Playing with Stereotypes and Subverting Anti-Feminism in New Woman Writers’ Contributions to Punch by Katy Birch

“…Critical studies of the representation of the New Woman in Punch tend to focus on its misogynistic depictions of a ‘nagging New Woman [who] can never be quiet’ (26 May 1894, 252), but alongside these satires on the New Woman were pieces by female authors, some of whom could be described as New Women themselves. …”
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Actualité du roman archéologique by Philippe Dufour

“…In this essay I will try to grasp the shift in referenciality through a small description (a meeting between the wealthy), inspired by Aristotle’s Politics: Hugolian images of decadence from Les Châtiments appear superimposed on it, so that the archeological novel turns into an allegorical satire on the Second Empire.…”
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« 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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Du blanc au gris, du gris au noir : les métamorphoses de Goya by Maud Le Guellec

“…Between rural settings and royal portraits, social satires and nightmarish scenes, it is impossible to grasp the abundant work of a multi-faceted Goya in a single glance. …”
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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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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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