EMPIRE, TRINITY, AND IRONY: RHETORIC AND THE BOOK OF REVELATION by Rian Venter

“…It was simultaneously implicated by and subversive of empire. In Revelation’s presentation of God one encounters redefined notions of divine agency and power, and an association with irony. …”
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Polyphonie et hantise dans Villette : quelques aspects du pacte de lecture by Isabelle Hervouet-Farrar

“…This paper reconsiders the narrator-narratee contract in Villette and shows how the narratee’s rational presence turns dialogism into an essential feature of this very unusual fictional autobiography; and contributes to the creation of a truly subversive and original piece of fiction. Dialogism however also bears witness to Lucy’s uneasy writing of experience. …”
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Depuis les podiums des reines de beauté : se produire comme femme trans en Bolivie by Pascale Absi

“…Thus, in a similar way to the indigenous Miss pageants, the transgender contests seem permeated by the tension between the reproduction of certain means of oppression and a genuinely subversive project.…”
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Entre « chic » et « chien » : les séductions de la Parisienne, de Jean-Jacques Rousseau à Yves Saint-Laurent by Emmanuelle Rétaillaud-Bajac

“…Today, though the image and reputation of « la Parisienne » are still used in the advertisement business and as a journalistic cliché, they have largely lost their subversive and erotic character due to the « sexual revolution » of the 1960’s and the homogenisation of behaviour in western societies.…”
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Gender and Jewishness: a Greimassian analysis of Susanna by D. M. Kanonge

“…Most scholars, mainly feminists, are pessimistic and suspicious about the subversive programme of Susanna. This study addresses the above concern using the Greimassian approach to narratives, as refined by Everaert-Desmedt. …”
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Des archives pour l’anthropologie : futurs possibles et passés contingents by David Zeitlyn

“…However, they also make clear that archives can be read subversively. With patience, counter-readings allow the excavation of the voices (sometimes names) of subaltern and otherwise suppressed others from the archive. …”
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From the “Homosexual Clone” to the “AIDS Clone”: the Impact of AIDS on the Body of the Gay Male by Christelle KLEIN-SCHOLZ

“…This paper examines how tremendously AIDS has changed the body of the gay male, starting with an examination of the figure of the “homosexual clone” as described by Martin Levine, for whom the glorification of the body that was current in gay neighborhoods before AIDS was a subversive form of self-construction. Barely a few years later, writer David Feinberg pits this figure against that of the “AIDS clone” and shows how deeply the gay male body and the way it is thought of have changed. …”
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Les voies de la (re)connaissance. by Eve Gianoncelli

“…In differing ways, these oppositions converge to insist upon the exceptional and subversive status of Cahun. In conclusion, I propose to highlight my own standpoint and the ways in which the category of “woman intellectual” may help to better understand Cahun’s forms of experience and subjectivity.…”
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Costumed doubles and avatars in Janieta Eyre’s photographic self-portraits by Valérie MORISSON

“…Her burlesque impersonations address gender identity in a subversive way. Judith Butler’s view of gender as stylized repetition of acts chimes in with Eyre’s use of seriality and endless mises-en-abyme, while Paul Gee’s definition of projective identity as a liminal form of identity—an interface between the real and the virtual self—and other researchers’ exploration of the avatar in game theory shed additional light on Eyre’s use of costuming.…”
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Zum Verhältnis von Tragödie, Lyrik und Moderne by Thomas Emmrich

“…A concluding comparison between Hölderlin and Foucault shows the similar structures in their thinking: Foucault also recognizes a subversive potential in modern poetry to rebut the hege(l)monic claims of philosophy.…”
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Beyond “for ever England”: Contemporary British Women’s War Poetry and the First World War Canon by Sofia Permiakova

“…Turning to the First World War patriotic narrative of “for ever England,” epito- mised by Rupert Brooke and his writing as the point of departure, this paper investigates 21st century commemorative women’s poetry written during the First World War centenary years and its subversive interaction with this traditional war narrative. …”
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Une maternité sous contrainte. Mères prisonnières dans les maisons centrales de femmes du Sud-ouest de la France au xixe siècle by Anna Le Pennec

“…In the prison machine supposed to be well-oiled, women’s wombs stir up trouble by introducing subversive elements. Children are born and grow up in penitentiaries despite the prohibiting rules. …”
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“Some Unholy Alloy”: Neoliberalism, Digital Modernity, and the Mechanics of Globalized Capital in Cormac McCarthy’s The Counselor by David Deacon

“…Thus, the screenplay extends classic McCarthian themes, while expanding the remit of critique to class relations in contemporary cross-border, and global consumer economies. The subversive appetites of Western consumerism—focused around commodity fetishism and narcotics—symbolized by characters like Westray, Reiner, and Malkina, render a distinctly modern tragedy enabling a critique of how (and whether) it is possible to represent and oppose such a system of increasing ephemerality and correlative persuasion.…”
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Écriture et trauma dans “The Giant Wistaria” : Quand Charlotte Perkins Gilman revisite le gothique by Paule Lévy

“…This article purports to highlight the relationship between text and trauma in Gilman’s, “The Giant Wistaria”, a short story based on one of the topoi of the gothic tradition: the haunted mansion.Gilman humorously introduces a “trouble in the genre”, turning her dark tale into a subversive version of the birth of the American nation. …”
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Specifics of irony in selected novels by Rudolf Sloboda by Romana Antalová

“…Another aspect analysed is the subversive effect of irony.…”
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El sistema sexo-género en los movimientos feministas by Teresa Aguilar García

“…On the other hand, the article also starts from the constructivism of Butler and the performative theory of gender, as well as discusses the paper of drag-queen like subversive agent who could oppose the imposed heterosexual code, or of the queer movement like destabilizing agent of the capitalist system, confronted with Rodriguez Magda, who introduces the concept of simulacrum of Baudrillard to explain the paper of drag-queen.…”
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Histoire des idées politiques et sources littéraires : L'Éducation sentimentale dans le contexte des jugements historiques sur Juin 1848 by Fausto Proietti

“…The author, who works in the field of the History of Political Ideas, focuses on the way Flaubert depicts the June 1848 Parisian insurrection, which he considers to be the main reason why the novel was perceived as a “subversive” one by his contemporaries. In fact, in order to support his description, Flaubert uses mainly four historical accounts, those written by the “leftist” historians Hippolyte Castille, Daniel Stern, Marc Caussidière and Louis Blanc. …”
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 ‘Twisting herself into all shapes’: blackface minstrelsy and comic performance in Harriet Wilson’s Our Nig by Elizabeth Boyle

“…This article argues that the practical jokes running throughout Wilson’s novel Our Nig; or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (1859) are evidence of a deliberate and sophisticated comic strategy that exploits the spectacular body’s potential for subversive performance and works against the alienating conditions of social and political marginalisation experienced by African Americans in the antebellum period. …”
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Naked Censorship: Stripping the Censors’ Discourse by Anne Etienne

“…Feared for its subversive potential, the English stage was subjected to the pre-production control exercised by the Lord Chamberlain for over 200 years. …”
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The Impact of Geopolitical Risk on Systemic Risk Spillover in Commodity Market: An EMD-Based Network Topology Approach by Zhijing Ding, Xu Zhang

“…When frequency is combined with states, the risk spillover center undergoes subversive changes, particularly in the longest term, and metals become the risk spillover center, substituting the energy commodity, on the condition that the compositions of extreme value add persuasive power to the perspective of long term. …”
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