Comment Hollywood figure l’intériorité dans les films « hollywoodiens » de David Lynch, Lost Highway (1997), Mulholland Dr. (2001) et Inland Empire (2006) by David ROCHE

“…The author contends that the films offer more than a satirical representation of a corrupt, unhealthy system which threatens dreams and artistic creativity, or a parodic play on Hollywood genre and narrative conventions. …”
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« Un néant follement attifé » : macabre et grotesque dans Mesure pour Mesure by Sophie Chiari

“…In an anamorphic play such as Measure for Measure, the grotesque is endowed with a strong satirical power, and its close relation to the macabre makes it even stronger. …”
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La violence politique dans le périodique satirique Simplicisssimus de l’avant à l’après Première Guerre mondiale by Pascale Cohen-Avenel

“…Political violence is particularly present between 1919 and 1923 in Simplicissimus, which was the most famous, and indeed the best, satirical magazine in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. …”
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Murder and Aesthetics in Patricia Highsmith’s Deep Water by Robert Lance Snyder

“…Highsmith’s mordantly unsettling narrative anticipates the mimetic fascination with murder in postmodern popular culture that ever since Thomas De Quincey’s 1827 satirical essay on the subject has abounded in fiction, nonfiction, and film. …”
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Faire mémoire par le trait ou les tribulations latino-américaines de Charlie by Frédérique Langue

“…In an adverse context for freedom of thought in the so called public sphere (both in Europe and Latin America), this essay explores the sense that is supposed to have from Latin America one of the "recent disasters" of present times, as was the attack against the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in January 2015. …”
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Biblical Intertextuality in Ferran de Pol by Josep V. Garcia Raffi, Xavier Garcia Raffi

“…Ferran de Pol’s rewriting of the Bible has multiple and heterogeneous functions: in some cases it acts as the central axis of a specific work, in others it has compositional, rhetorical, satirical, conceptual or parodic functions. …”
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La fonction mnémonique des cartes à jouer illustrées : Le rôle de la mémoire dans la réception et la diffusion des idées whig à travers le jeu de cartes The Meal Tub Plot (c. 1681)... by Sophie Lambea

“…However, understanding the meaning of these illustrated playing cards is difficult for today’s reader/observer, as Francis Barlow based the narrative of his illustrations on the memory of events that took place at the end of the seventeenth century and knowledge of the historical and cultural context is necessary to fully understand the satirical scope of the playing cards.Besides, The Meal Tub Plot playing cards were not only intended to entertain, but also to help shape public opinion and the collective memory of the English people, thereby facilitating the accession of William of Orange to the throne in 1689.…”
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Disease, Deformity and Health Terrors in 19th-Century Cartoons: A Cultural History of Science by Ainhoa Gilarranz-Ibáñez

“…The “cultural visualisation” of science via exhibitions, fairs and illustrated publications became even more intense and widespread in the nineteenth century. In this context, satirical images linked to scientific development proliferated. …”
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“Punk’s Not Dead, It Lives on The Football Terraces”: Tracing The Legacy of Punk in Subcultural Milieu of The Football Firms by Hüseyin Serbes

“…The findings reveal that Punk’s aggressive, rhetorical and satirical aesthetic codes exist in the stands. The discovery of Punk, which offers a subcultural capital against commodification, alienation and commercialized football, may regenerate the praxis of pleasure, poetry, art, imagination, love and revolution on the football terraces.…”
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‘Larks in Season’: The Comic Almanack (1835–54) by Brian Maidment

“…One response to such reformist impulses was the comic or travesty almanac, and this essay centrally forms a study of the longest lasting and most successful satirical almanac, The Comic Almanack, which ran from 1835 until 1854. …”
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Babuinare by Joana Antunes

“…Among the various protagonists of these margins of medieval art, and particularly from the 13th century on, apes stand out as a satirical and moralising simile of mankind, and, therefore, as the main actors of a topsy-turvy world that finds their natural place in the margins. …”
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Newman polémiste et satiriste by Keith Beaumont

“…Newman is widely recognized in the English-speaking world as one of its great satirical authors (though it has to be admitted that his subtle irony sometimes escapes the translators of his work into other languages, notably French !). …”
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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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Pink Stockings, Yellow Stockings: the Use of Pink-Yellow in Marston and Shakespeare by Anita BUTLER

“…John Marston (c. 1576-1634), William Shakespeare’s younger contemporary, wrote plays such as The Malcontent (c. 1604) that are performed today: his satirical comedy What You Will (published 1607) is not one of these. …”
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Le procès Bruno Dey, un nouveau procès à la cage de verre by Bérénice Zunino

“…Like a kaleidoscope, the images of Dey, monster and ordinary man at the same time, fit into multiple iconographic traditions in terms of media representations of Nazi criminals. Whether narrative, satirical or documentary, the images produced by the two press organs seek either the truth or the scandal. …”
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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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