Fortissimus robore: Martin Krpan as a case of biblical reception by David Movrin

“…The duel between a Slovenian peasant and a giant who comes to terrorise Vienna was in turn read by scholars as a political satire, the realisation of a literary and linguistic programme, a literary parody etc. …”
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Tricky Film: The Critical and Legal Reception of <i>I Am Curious (Yellow)</i> in America by Ulf Jonas Björk

“…As a mixture of political satire and a chronicle of a sexual affair, with fictional and documentary material, the film was referred to by a U.S. government official as “the most explicit movie ever imported” when it arrived in America in 1968 and was released only after a federal appeals court reversed a lower-court verdict that had found it legally obscene. …”
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Johannes Kerkorrel en postapartheid- Afrikaneridentiteit by M. Viljoen

“…Kerkorrel’s songs, many of which were banned during the apartheid era, created an alternative Afrikaner voice through biting social criticism and political satire. His politicised narratives evoke collective memories and experiences that construct moral hierarchies by means of an exceptional intensity, simplicity and power. …”
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THE TALE OF THE PRIEST AND OF HIS WORKMAN BALDA BY A. PUSHKIN by Evgeniy Mikhaylovich Neyolov

“…Traditionally, The Tale of Balda has been interpreted as an acute socio-political satire; another approach refers to the peculiarities of folk tales poetics and its literary transformation, determined by the difficulties of combining the folk fairy-tale function of the character with the nature of a literary tale hero. …”
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« Laws for laughing ! » : discours théorique et pratique thếâtrale sur la scène comique du XVIIIe siècle by Marc Martinez, Marie-Claire Rouyer-Daney

“…Finally, it is argued that the licensing of dramatic texts, introduced by the 1737 Act, was an attempt to purge the stage of its obscenity, in the name of the propriety required by the middle-class audience, and of any political satire, as evidenced by the long battle Charles Macklin had with the Lord Chamberlain. …”
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Redeeming Time: Henry V’s Transition from ‘Comedian’ to King by David Livingstone

“…Henry in his interactions with Falstaff and others employs a wide range of comic techniques: jokes, insult comedy, imitations, political satire, etc. In contrast, however, with Zelensky who has bravely rallied his country and inspired the world with resistance to a larger aggressor in a defensive war, Henry V does the exact opposite invading neighbouring France on the most flimsy of pretexts. …”
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“Ha, ha, ha”: Modes of Satire in the Royalist Newsbook The Man in the Moon by Laurent Curelly

“…This paper looks into the satirical identity of The Man in the Moon in comparison with other royalist newspapers: it assesses how much Crouch’s newsbook was shaped by laughter, highlights the main features of political satire and discusses how far satire – and the laughter that it was meant to provoke – contributed to the emergence of a post-elegiac mood that overcame royalist journalism. …”
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“The United States of Lyncherdom”: Humor and Outrage in Percival Everett’s <i>The Trees</i> (2021) by Michel Feith

“…We propose an examination of the various guises of humor in this text, from wordplay and carnivalesque inversion to the more sinister <i>humour noir</i>, black or gallows humor, and an assessment of their dynamic modus operandi in relation to political satire, literary parody and the expression of the unconscious. …”
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Iconography of the Labour Movement. Part 1: Republican Iconography, 1792–1848 by Fred Andersson

“…The virtues and vices of classical moral education were replaced or combined with new ones, and old symbols were invested with altered meanings in the context of political satire and allegory. The human and especially the female body retained prominence as a vehicle for conceptual personification in official display and in the minds of common people. …”
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Providing Space to the Marginalized: Bertolt Brecht’s Reception of John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera by Isti Haryati

“…The popularity of John Gay’s political satire play The Beggar’s Opera in the English literary world prompted a German writer, Bertolt Brecht, to respond to the work. …”
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La sátira y el humor político durante el Tercer Reich. Los delitos contra la Volksgemeinschaft by Francisco Miguel De Toro Muñoz es Doctor en Historia Moderna y Contemporánea por la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. Su tesis doctoral, “Nazismo y resistencia en Austria. Oposición, disentimiento, consenso y policía política. Viena (1938-1942)”, recibió excelente cum laude, con Premio Extraordinario de doctorado. Paralelamente ha publicado distintos artículos de investigación en revistas científicas como «Historiar», «Historia Social», «Segle XX», etc. Se ocupa de temas relacionados con la historia del Tercer Reich y el Nacionalsocialismo, dedicándose especialmente al análisis del sistema de represión.

“…It is in this environment of control of all possible expressions of thought that flourish the political satire, which draws on reserves of imagination and ingenuity to the totalitarian system that denies its form of expression. …”
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Eça de Queirós as telenovela: class, gender, and melodrama in Brazilian audiovisual adaptations of Portuguese nineteenth-century literature by Murta, G

“…I argue that through appealing to melodrama, sensuality, cordiality and humour the films and series neutralise or dilute the socio-political satire that underpins the Portuguese writer’s work, resulting in films and miniseries that support the very rhetoric the novels sought to challenge. …”

Impak satira politik terhadap internet trolling di Malaysia by Raja Zulkifi, Raja Nurafiqah, Ahmad, Noor Sulastry Yurni, Mohd Sani, Mohd Azizuddin, Muhamad, Haslina

“…Political satire of the internet trolling has been growing in Malaysia. …”
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Genre-based tradition of happy ending in Ye. Zamyatin’s Tales by Korzheva Alina Evgenievna

“…There is a mixture of the fairytale genre with the genre of socio-political satire in Ye.I. Zamyatin’s analyzed works. The authors analyze the plot and stylistic means used by the writer, their compliance with the standard canon. …”
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Prensa satírica popular en Chile y la actualidad de un debate: 'El Ají' (1889–1894) y 'José Arnero' (1905–1914) by Chiara Sáez Baeza, Antonieta Vera Gajardo

“…This is differentiated from the conventional nineteenth-century Chilean political satire, which centered on the disputes of the oligarchs while making visible a popular subject (sender and receiver) that is much more complex and paradoxical than that of the dominant labor press. …”
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KERAGAMAN MAKNA POLITIK DAN KEKUASAAN CERPEN �SEPOTONG BIBIR PALING INDAH DI DUNIA� KARYA AGUS NOOR: KAJIAN SEMIOTIK ROLAND BARTHES by , JUWITA NUR MUSTIKA, , Dr. Novi Siti Kussuji Indrastuti, M. Hum.

“…Impression parody intended as an expression of political satire on power and Indonesian leaders. Satire about politics and power Indonesian leaders contained in the short story \"Sepotong Bibir Paling Indah di Dunia\" is told using symbols interconnected. …”

The politics of nonsense: civil unrest, otherness and national mythology in nonsense literature by Shortsleeve, KK

“…The political aspects of nonsense will be the more holistically examined by inclusion in this discussion of, for example, the political satire of eighteenth century colonial American humorist Francis Hopkinson, the Victorian era libretti of W. …”

Eutopian and Dystopian Water Resource Systems Design and Operation—Three Irish Case Studies by J. Philip O’Kane

“…By opposing eutopia and dystopia (latin forms) (Utopian literature begins with Thomas More’s (1478–1535) fictional socio-political satire “Utopia”, written in Latin and published in 1516: “<i>Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia</i>”. …”
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从黄子华的 "栋笃笑" 看香港人的身份认同以及中港关系 = Dayo Wang's stand-up comedy, Hong Konger's identity and Hongkong-China relations by 苏伟婷 Soo, Wee Tin

“…and Settlement before autumn bewailed the uneasiness and fear felt by the Hong Kong citizens towards the hand-over. These political satire then eventually became an astonishing prophecy that came true. …”
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The dominant rhetorical elements in the satirical Khorus Lari's Divan by A.A Bagheri Khalili

“…Irony is the distinctive feature of the socio-political satires of the Divan which has given them a popular tone. …”
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