‘I should like to see a woman smoking while she was nursing her baby’: The New Woman, Crossdressing, and Humour in Horace William Bleackley’s Une Culotte (1894) by Mariam Zarif

“…This essay explores the fundamental contradictions of humour in Une Culotte by looking at how Bleackley situates his New Women heroines within the context of nineteenth-century British feminism. First I suggest that humour is generated in the novel by the New Woman protagonist’s comic attacks of the rigid construction of gender differences. …”
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Bouvard et Pécuchet et le savoir médical by Norioki Sugaya

“…We have chosen to focus on the medical file in order to understand the meaning of the documentary excess with respect toFlaubert’s esthetics. First we shall study the components of the file, identifying the medical works read by the author of Bouvard. …”
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SCHWARZ BIN ICH UND SCHÖN – RHETORISCHE IRONIE IM HOHELIED1 by S Fischer

“…The linguistic irony carries a second meaning contrary to the first more obvious one, being expressed as verbal and situational irony. …”
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Mères et fils dans le théâtre de la Renaissance anglaise by Marie-Hélène Besnault

“…Among the followers of Noah's sons dealing with their recalcitrant mother, we meet, in Nicholas Udall’s comic interlude Thersites, a son who first teases his mother, then seeks her protection, and ends with reproaches. …”
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Duchowieństwo Kościoła katolickiego wobec polskich zrywów niepodległościowych w XIX wieku – przypadek Ludwika Łętowskiego (1786–1868) by Andrzej Synowiec

“…Ludwik Łętowski was a member of the Senate of the Republic of Cracow, who first strongly supported the November Uprising – this “historical mission of Poles,” – and then, as an auxiliary bishop of Cracow, strongly opposed the Cracow Uprising, which he called a “comic brawl.” …”
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« Bois ! ». La rencontre fatale entre Salammbô et Mâtho dans les transpositions iconiques du roman by Bruna Donatelli

“…As a result, in the iconic transpositions of the novel this first and brief encounter between the two characters is often left in the background, while focusing on the scene of love and violence/rape under the tent of the mercenary. …”
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