Rhyme or Reason: Three Patterns of Poetic Interference in the British Crime Novel by Camille Fort-Cantoni

“…There are two ways of interpreting it: a poetical reading, that denies the text an object, and an utilitarian reading, that forces out of it a series of names limiting its “effect of illimitation” (Jean Cohen), though questioned by narrative irony. In Agatha Christie’s Crooked House, the nursery rhyme in the title is merely submitted by the detective to a rational, analogical reading. …”
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PLATONAS, CARROLLIS, WITTGENSTEINAS IR KRIPKE APIE PRIVAČIOS KALBOS GALIMYBĘ by Saulenė Pučiliauskaitė

“…This conclusion is in agreement with the irony of Plato and the grotesque wit of Carroll. …”
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Animal Objects: Memory, Desire and Mourning by Julia Courtney

“…Drawing on contemporary journalism, fiction and descriptions of the objects themselves, I examine topics including the irony of ‘naturalisation’, the synecdoche of dismembered parts, and the power of objects to focus emotions. …”
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A posteriori modality, implicative modality by abduction. A case study: he must have been drunk to have said that by Geneviève Girard-Gillet

“…It expresses some kind of humour, irony even, and always denotes the speaker’s astonishment at what happened and at the reason why a particular individual took part in the event in question.…”
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THE MEANING OF SEMANTIC ANALYSIS WITHIN SONG’S LYRICS “A HEAD FULL OF DREAMS” ALBUM BY COLDPLAY by Lilis Sholihah

“…Specifically, the figurative language which found in lyrics a head full of dreams album , there are 1 metaphor, 2 similes, 2 symbol, 2 hyperboles and 1 irony. Then, the five song lyrics in a head full of dreams album by Coldplay tell us about human social life which contained about love, sadness, happiness, spirit and adventure of life.   …”
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Reverent Induction: Epistemology and the Romantic Education of the Child Reader in Charles Kingsley’s The Water-Babies (1863) by Laura H. Clarke

“…One way he does this is to model the process of analogical reasoning for the child reader in order to challenge the assumptions of empirical philosophy and the other is to use irony and wit to satirize what he sees as the nonsensical structure of deductive reason. …”
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FABRIKASI DAN PENGUJIAN TELAPAK KAKI PALSU JENIS SINGLE AXIS by Christianus Pigun Wardoyo, Muslim Mahardika, Suyitno Suyitno, Rini Dharmastiti, Urip Agus Salim, Budi Arifvianto

“…Along with the increasing number of persons with disabilities, the need for prosthetic foot has also increased. However, the irony is that some of the products circulating in Indonesia are still imported from abroad, while the domestic product is quite limited and possesses some drawbacks. …”
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A Study of Social Class Conflict in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. by Atukunda, Atubangiire

“…The study highlights how Austen uses satire and irony to address the moral limitations of the class system and to propose a more flexible social order. …”
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Intercultural and Intertextual Crossings in Sarah Howe’s Loop of Jade (2015) by Yasna Bozhkova

“…Loop of Jade explores the experience of cultural hybridity and deracination through an intertextual poetics predicated on artifice and irony, going against the grain of a simple, unmediated confessional poetic narrative “of the origins.” …”
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Constructing competing discourses on the Russo-Ukrainian war: journalistic translation in wartime by Angela Kamyanets

“…Regarding dialogicality, one author structures his text as an implied dialogue with hypothetical opponents, employing rhetorical questions, imperative sentences, irony, and first-person narration, whereas the other author references individuals with institutional authority to validate his assertions. …”
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METAMODERNISM MAN IN THE WORLDVIEW DIMENSION OF NEW CULTURAL PARADIGM by Y. O. Shabanova

“…Proceeding from this, the fate of a metamodernism man is determined in pursuit of the endlessly receding horizons of the anthropology of incompleteness, which is carried out through post-irony, naive sincerity, optimistic openness to the world.…”
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RADIO PLAYS AS A SPECIAL GENRE IN THE WORK OF E. JELINEK by Tatiana V. Akasheva, Alexandra D. Zharkova

“…In the plays, Jelinek uses collage-editing and inset techniques, wordplay, transformed quotes to create irony and absurdity of everyday situations. Despite the fact that the work of E. …”
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Laguna de fracasos by Lagunaries

“…We perform theories, we investigate modes of escaping the lineal narrativity, using polyphonic and choral forms of thinking / moving / saying / existing. We inhabit the irony of a virtuality that imposes a distance on us and at the same time it hacks all geographical borders. …”
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Ekscytująca zagadka polskiej animacji by Paul Wells

“…Wells stwierdza, że jest to pasja siły samego życia, która od połowy lat 50. do dzisiaj napędza stylizowaną ironię polskiej animacji. …”
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La feuille bulozienne by Philippe Dufour

“…Sa voix, indifférente, ne trouve pas d’écho dans les idéologies de son temps. Son ironie ne s’associe pas à une indignation précise. …”
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Dijital Kültür Olarak Mizaha Memetik Bir Bakış ve Yaşlı Bireylerin Anlamlandırma Süreci by Nagihan Ünlü Karataş

“…Bu nedenle “mem”leri anlamak ve yorumlamak postmodernizmin karmaşıklığına ve özgünlüğüne dayalı bir süreçtir. Bu süreçte ironi, metinler arası ilişkiler, değişkenlik ve parçalanmışlık gibi özellikler ön plana çıkar. …”
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"La reproduction des eaux par les arrosages", historique et actualité d'une théorie by Jeanne Riaux

“…N'y a-t-il pas, à l'heure d'une double remise en cause de l'irrigation gravitaire (gaspillage et anachronisme), une certaine ironie à redécouvrir cette théorie… pas si désuète en somme ?…”
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Stéréotypes, déconstruction et mémoire dans le discours du programme web brésilien « Põe na Roda » by Fabiano Ormaneze, Duílio Fabbri Júnior

“…La première vidéo vise à défendre la cause gay à travers une tentative de construction d’un discours niant les stéréotypes sur l’homosexualité, à l’aide d’artifices linguistiques tels que l’ironie et l’humour, pour montrer la diversité des gays au-delà des préjugés. …”
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City of Wars: the Representation of Wartime London in Two Novels of the 1940s: James Hanley’s No Directions and Patrick Hamilton’s The Slaves of Solitude by Jean-Christophe Murat

“…Le roman de Hamilton, au contraire, est postérieur à 1945, ce qui permet sans doute à l’auteur de faire preuve d’un sens de l’humour et de l’ironie assez déroutant. Dans les deux romans, la guerre est vécue non par des militaires mais par des civils et des non-combattants : No Directions représente le point de vue des occupants d’un immeuble d’habitation de Chelsea, à Londres, au cours d’un raid aérien nocturne. …”
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