Perigosas brincadeiras:a infância em Marcelo Mirisola e Furio Lonza by Renan Ji

“…Those repre sentations are completely overthrown by farcical nonsense, social criticism and the violence of big cities. …”
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Da literatura para a infância à literatura de fronteira: Agustín Fernández Paz e Lygia Bojunga by Blanca-Ana Roig Rechou

“…Among several topics discussed, pointing the work of the two authors, it can be mentioned, to highlight the painstaking handling of narrative forms and records, the exploring of the fantastic-realist trend; inter-textuality; the frequent use of peritexts; female protagonists, the taste for taboo topics; and social criticism.…”
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Britten et l’art de la parabole by Gilles Couderc

“…Through the adoption of the model of tragedy and oratorio with Britten’s own tragic heroes and tragic imagery, through the rhetoric of musical devices and forms and through social criticism and his indictment of Bible-thumping and dogmatic intellectuals, Britten the educator strives at raising the consciousness of his audience so as to better spread his humanistic message.…”
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Anchored in Justice: Yorùbá Philosophy and the Politics of a Diverse State by Segun Gbadegesin

“…To illustrate, I recount a few historical and mythical examples from the radical and unconventional social critics, Kọrú Ọjà, Ọpálábà and Aróhánrán of the Old Ọyọ Empire, to the historical Àare ̣ Kúrunmí of Ìjàyè. …”
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Having Your Cake: Caricaturing the Business Organization in 20th-century and Contemporary American Art and Poetry by David Reckford

“…After that other poets, novelists, and especially visual artists have turned their gaze and their rhetoric towards what might be called the business blind spot in art, to expand art’s demesne dialectically, to engage in subtle social criticism, to reach behind business to get to society or, fascinatingly, in the cases of Andy Warhol, and later Jeff Koons, to create new ambiguities that play on contemporary anxieties, revealing hidden vulnerabilities in modern societies, to those that can see and feel them.…”
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SOCIALINĖ KULTŪROS KRITIKA VERSUS POPKULTŪROS TYRIMAI by Gintautas Mažeikis

“…Prasminiai žodžiai: kultūros industrija, subkultūros, stilius, popkultūros ambivalentiškumas, polisemantiškumas. SOCIAL CRITICISM OF CULTURE VERSUS POPCULTURAL STUDIES Gintautas Mažeikis Genesis of cultural studies, controversies between conceptions of Frankfurt critical school and Birmingham centre of Cultural Studies are discussed in the article. …”
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SOCIALINĖ KULTŪROS KRITIKA VERSUS POPKULTŪROS TYRIMAI by Gintautas Mažeikis

“…Prasminiai žodžiai: kultūros industrija, subkultūros, stilius, popkultūros ambivalentiškumas, polisemantiškumas. SOCIAL CRITICISM OF CULTURE VERSUS POPCULTURAL STUDIES Gintautas Mažeikis Genesis of cultural studies, controversies between conceptions of Frankfurt critical school and Birmingham centre of Cultural Studies are discussed in the article. …”
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Gothic Fault-Lines in Anne Brontë’s Social Fiction: The Case of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) by Isabelle Hervouet

“…Anne Brontë appears unwilling to espouse realism and social criticism which, if fully embraced, might imply forgoing valued (and cherished) Gothic modes of storytelling. …”
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THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF GLOBAL STRATEGIES FOR THE TRANSFORMATION OF SOCIETY AND EDUCATION IN THE CONTEXT OF CRITICAL THEORY by Viktor V. Zinchenko

“…The point of view of socio-philosophical and philosophical-еducational, pedagogical-psychological, normative understanding and social critics also requires the use of active efforts in the reconstruuction of education and society, the social vision of what education and human life can be and what their specific limitations in existing societies.…”
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