Implicit Coordination: Acting Quasi-Jointly on Implicit Shared Intentions by Judith Martens, Luke Roelofs

“…We discuss the significance of this category for action theory, social ontology, and social criticism. …”
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American 'committed' drama in Slovene theatres by Igor Maver

“…This was only in the early post-war years largely due to the need to serve the then ruling ideology and to comply with the criteria of Marxist aesthetisc, especially that of a radical social criticism. However, the later stagings particularly of Arthur Miller's and also Tennessee Williams's plays, did not see the same phenomenon, for it was they that assured the popularity of the American post-war drama on Slovene stages and, even more importantly, helped Slovene theatre to come off age in the sixties.…”
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Medellín como una representación de la decadencia de Colombia en Casablanca la bella de Fernando Vallejo by Barbara Curzytek

“…The analysis proves that the narrator-protagonist, disappointed with the modernity in Colombian context, is incapable of accepting the changes that the city as well as the country have suffered during his life and uses the descriptions of the urban space for social criticism. The conclusion is that the narrator-protagonist obsessively tries to re-actualize the past and persists in linking to it as he does not see any point of reference in the present nor any positive perspective for Colombia in a foreseeable future.…”
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The individual and the social in Annie Ernaux's autobiographical writing by Yulia A. Kosova, Elena B. Ponomarenko, Gérard Siary

“…The analysis of key concepts of the Ernaux's poetics makes it possible, on the one hand, to grasp the appearance of social and cultural alienation and, on the other hand, to achieve a social criticism of reality.…”
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Small World ... And a Barren One by Gibert Maceda, María Teresa

“…The Waste Land provides an excellent literary background for a piece of social criticism about the contemporary academic world, a portrait -or caricature- which emphasizes the futility of the barren life led by many present-day scholars. …”
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Implicit Coordination: Acting Quasi-Jointly on Implicit Shared Intentions by Martens Judith, Roelofs Luke

“…We discuss the significance of this category for action theory, social ontology, and social criticism.…”
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True Confessions, End Papers and the Dakar conference: A review of the political arguments by Hermann Giliomee

“…As a social critic Breyten Breytenbach published two books of political commentary and political analysis during the mid-1980s without the opportunity of engaging with commentators at home. …”
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Deceptive Practices Used in Contemporary Marketing Communication and their Evaluation from Customer Perspective in Slovak Republic by Katarina Gubiniova, Gabriela Pajtinkova Bartakova

“…Misleading, deceptive and unethical approaches of marketing management have become a subject of social criticism, while this issue is gradually becoming more and more notable also in academic sphere. …”
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Immigrants’ Bilingual Humor: Language Play and Social Adaptation (The Case of Russian-Speaking Israelis) by Maria Yelenevskaya

“…As immigrants’ proficiency in the language of the host society increases, their humor becomes more sophisticated focusing on social criticism and in-group solidarity rather than on mere juggling of phonetically similar words. …”
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Inmigración y subalternidad en el cine argentino: Nobleza Gaucha by Pablo Alvira, Ronen Man

“…Most of the artistic and cultural expressions of the period were functional to this project of the dominant class, including cinema, which revealed as an ideal vehicle for the configuration of this collective imaginary, excluded the social criticism and omitted the presence of the subaltern classes. …”
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Female Factory Workers in Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna’s Quest by Fusco Carla

“…An interesting exception in the early Victorian period is represented by the writer Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, whose fiction works as a medium of social criticism. Her semi-fictional The Wrongs of Woman is a reform novel which sheds a controversial light on female working conditions. …”
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D’un genre cinématographique à l’autre : trois adaptations en westerns dans le cinéma américain d’après 1945 by Mathieu Lacoue-Labarthe

“…In some cases, there is no possible equivalent between the two genres: House of Strangers’ social criticism gives way to the denunciation of racism in Broken Lance. …”
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Ritual Aspects of popular Politics in England (c. 1700-1830) by Frank O'Gorman

“…These include: Ritual as spectacle (including the deployment of colour, light and music); Ritual as carnival (including satire, social criticism and social inversion); Ritual as symbolism. …”
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Penafsiran Muhammad ‘Abduh Terhadap Alquran Surat Al-Nisâ’ Ayat 3 dan 129 tentang Poligami by U. Abdurrahman

“…Muhammad ‘Abduh is a pioneer and the founder of the Tafsîr al-Adab al-Ijtimâ’i school, a style of interpretation of the Koran that emphasizes to the beauty of language (literature) as well as to social criticism toward the improvement of society. According to Abduh, the verses 3 and 29 of Surah al-Nisa [4] does allow polygamy but with strict requirements and restrictions i.e being able to deal justly with wives. …”
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E. A. Poe and A. A. Shkljarevskij: Foregrounding Deduction and/or Social Commentary – A Comparative Study of Early Detective Fiction by Maja Pandžić

“…Keywords: 19th century Russian detective fiction, Edgar Allan Poe, Aleksandr Andreevich Shkljarevskij, social criticism, ratiocination, crime fiction…”
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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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L’arte è una disciplina da combattimento: George Grosz e Günther Anders by Rosanna Gangemi

“…The aim of this paper is to offer an analysis on the short but poignant texts which Anders wrote on Grosz’ artistic research, providing some of the most vitriolic social criticism of his time. The studies of Anders show unpredicted connections, unveiling in an unprecedented way the deep unity of Grosz’ wide œuvre marked by an absolute pessimism, and therefore particularly near to the philosopher’s “negative ontology”. …”
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ITALIANO IN VARIAZIONE: REALIZZAZIONI FILMICHE DELLA LINGUA DEI NUOVI MIGRANTI by Marta Idini

“…Variations of the italian language: the language of new migrants in films The history of cinema has often viewed foreign components in a marginal way, imbalanced due to comic-parodic intentions or attempts to use them as a form of social criticism. Today, however, cinema has discovered new visions and welcomed new sounds: the languages of migrant peoples have taken the place of European languages and films are beginning to question the mandatory reality of coexistence and integration.…”
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Erasmo, Maquiavel e Moro e a Modernidade: Estilos e Projetos Sociais na Filosofia Política Renascentista by Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

“…This article also emphasizes, in its dialogue the dimensions of the social project, be it a social criticism (mainly Erasmus), be it a political treaty (specially Machiavelli), or a utopia and similar (namely More).…”
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Deceptive Practices Used in Contemporary Marketing Communication and their Evaluation from Customer Perspective in Slovak Republic by Katarina Gubiniova, Gabriela Pajtinkova Bartakova

“…Misleading, deceptive and unethical approaches of marketing management have become a subject of social criticism, while this issue is gradually becoming more and more notable also in academic sphere. …”
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