О жанровом своеобразии „Современной идиллии” Михаила Салтыкова-Щедрина by Mark Sokolanskij

“…Special attention is paid to the traditions of a cervantesian type of novel in the book, the ironic code in the title and narration, real objects of bitter political satire, a great number of literary quotations, reminiscences and so on. …”
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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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Ramazan Kayalar’ın Anısına by Selahattin Öztürk

“…Bu yazı aramızdan ayrılandeğerli ağabeyim Ramazan Kayalar’ı hatırlatacak sadece birkaç satır, oysa gerisi, evet ya gerisinianlatabilmek mümkün mü? …”
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B. P. Hasdeu – portretul unui cărturar „generalist” by Stancu Ilin

“…He founded many publications with politic, literary and satiric profile. He is the first in Romanian culture who wrote a book chronicle and a study of comparative literature. …”
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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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Témoigner, dénoncer, révulser : dessins de haine, XXe-XXIe siècles by Gilbert Millat

“…The graphic satire label encompasses different trends in cartoon art, especially in Britain. …”
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La cuestión de la limpieza de sangre y la disimulación religiosa en algunos entremeses del siglo xvii : de la burla a la sátira social by Carine Herzig

“…Beyond their purely comic character, many of these plays offer a satire of concrete aspects of social and political life, particularly those related to blood purity and the condition of the old Christian. …”
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Geschichte im Roman / Roman in der Geschichte by Klaus-Detlef Müller

“…In his novel Success [Erfolg], Feuchtwanger satirically draws on social constellations and political events in the early years of the Weimar Republic. …”
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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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Geo Bogza și provincia ca aventură – note despre O sută șaptezeci și cinci de minute la Mizil by Paul Cernat

“…This study reinterprets an inter-wars text from the prose of Romanian writer Geo Bogza – the experimental reportage One Hundred and Seventy Five Minutes in Mizil [O sută şaptezeci şi cinci de minute la Mizil], from a multiply focused perspective. Unlike the minor or satiric prose about the Romanian townlets of 1900, Bogza’s piece of writing is regarded as a form of paradoxical rehabilitation of the provincial anonymity by a grid partly indebted to the vanguard. …”
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Истори я как предмет пародии в „Диалектике Переходного Времени” Виктора Пелевина by Roman Szubin

“…The author of this article points to Pelevin’s two main creative strategies: his use of satire which is connected with the representation of history and his inclination toward mysticism and esotericism. …”
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“Insular hobbits”? Englishness, Euroscepticism and the Brexit vote in Jonathan Coe’s Middle England (2018) by Guillaume Clément

“…Among other factors, Coe’s satire draws our attention to contemporary representations of Britishness in media and popular culture, for instance in the London 2012 Olympic games’ opening ceremony, with its quite stereotypical, anglocentric portrayal of national identity. …”
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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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Horaţiu şi Augustus by Alexandra Ciocârlie

“…Originally, while being on the republican side, the poet participates in the battle from Philippi, in which he was enrolled as tribune, and was fighting under command of Brutus. In his first satires and epodes, characterised by a realistic expressiveness, he manifests a reserved attitude towards Octavian, whom he indirectly mentions in passing. …”
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Siyasal Meşruiyetin Sağlanmasında Medyanın Rolü Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme by Mehmet Emin Satır

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Challenging power through social media by Rodwell Makombe, Grace Temiloluwa Agbede

“…The article argues that internet memes of the “Mugabe fall” express subversive views that undermine the regime through humour, exaggeration, satire and other stylistic devices. Internet memes present an alternative discourse that counters the official narrative promoted by the regime. …”
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