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Cette étude sur le théâtre ionescien soulève différents enjeux puisqu'elle parle d'une expérience de l'absurde fondée sur une organisation symbolique de l'espace, du temps, des personnages, associée à une démolition du langage. Il s'agit de mettre en avant une spécificité esthétique originale de ce théâtre : la géométrie et l'arithmétique éclairent le système dans lequel vivent les personnages, enfermés dans une structure, et contribuent à la création d'un monde parallèle au nôtre. L'analyse des figures géométriques et arithmétiques proprement dites ainsi que les notions de verticalité et d'horizontalité confirment, à une autre échelle, ce sentiment d'enfermement et exposent deux attitudes possibles face à l'existence absurde : la soumission ou la résistance. L'expérience de l'absurdité, façonnée par les outils de la géométrie et de l'arithmétique, met en lumière le principe même du théâtre de dérision : dire le tragique par le comique. Ionesco se fait ainsi le créateur d'une nouvelle logique permettant une critique de la société et surtout un triste constat sur l'existence. Jouant avec la distanciation, avec des personnages aux allures de pantins qui font rire, mais aussi avec l'identification des lecteurs et des spectateurs à ces personnages, il montre que derrière le rire se cache l'angoisse. Se profile alors une réflexion sur l'existence des êtres destinés à mourir, la nôtre... Etudiante en lettres, cette étude sur le théâtre ionescien a été réalisée à partir de mon mémoire de Master 1 soutenu à l'Université de Nice en mai 2009.

Geometry in literature --- Space and time in literature --- Ionesco, Eugène --- Criticism and interpretation --- Ionesco, Eugène, --- Ionesco, Eugène, - 1909-1994 - Criticism and interpretation --- Ionesco, Eugène, - 1909-1994

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What if historical fiction were understood as a disfiguring of calculus? Or poems enacting the formation and breakdown of community as expositions of irrational numbers? What if, in other words, literary texts possessed a kind of mathematical unconscious?The persistence of the rhetoric of "two cultures," one scientific, the other humanities-based, obscures the porous border and productive relationship that has long existed between literature and mathematics. In eighteenth-century Scottish universities, geometry in particular was considered one of the humanities; anchored in philosophy, it inculcated what we call critical thinking. But challenges to classical geometry within the realm of mathematics obligated Scottish geometers to become more creative in their defense of the traditional discipline; and when literary writers and philosophers incorporated these mathematical problems into their own work, the results were not only ingenious but in some cases pioneering. Literature After Euclid tells the story of the creative adaptation of geometry in Scotland during and after the long eighteenth century. It argues that diverse attempts in literature and philosophy to explain or even emulate the geometric achievements of Isaac Newton and others resulted in innovations that modify our understanding of descriptive and bardic poetry, the aesthetics of the picturesque, and the historical novel. Matthew Wickman's analyses of these innovations in the work of Walter Scott, Robert Burns, James Thomson, David Hume, Thomas Reid, and other literati change how we perceive the Scottish Enlightenment and the later, modernist ethos that purportedly relegated the "classical" Enlightenment to the dustbin of history. Indeed, the Scottish Enlightenment's geometric imagination changes how we see literary history itself.

Scottish literature --- English literature --- Geometry in literature. --- Enlightenment --- Scots literature --- British literature --- History and criticism. --- Scottish authors --- Scotland --- Intellectual life --- Cultural Studies. --- Literature.

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"Joyce and Geometry" reveals the full extent to which the modernist writer James Joyce was influenced by the radical theories of non-Euclidean geometry. Tracing Joyce's obsession with measuring and mapping space throughout his works, Ciaran McMorran delves into a major theme in Joyce's work that has not been thoroughly explored until now.

Sciences dans la litterature. --- Geometrie dans la litterature. --- Science in literature. --- Geometry in literature. --- Joyce, James, --- Joyce, James, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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When Coleridge described the landscapes he passed through while scrambling among the fells, mountains, and valleys of Britain, he did something unprecedented in Romantic writing: to capture what emerged before his eyes, he enlisted a geometric idiom. Immersed in a culture still beholden to Euclid's Elements and schooled by those who subscribed to its principles, he valued geometry both for its pragmatic function and for its role as a conduit to abstract thought. Indeed, his geometric training would often structure his observations on religion, aesthetics, politics, and philosophy. For Coleridge, however, this perspective never competed with his sensitivity to the organic nature of his surroundings but, rather, intermingled with it. Situating Coleridge's remarkable ways of seeing within the history and teaching of mathematics and alongside the eighteenth century's budding interest in non-Euclidean geometry, Ann Colley illuminates the richness of the culture of walking and the surprising potential of landscape writing.

Landscapes in literature. --- Geometry in literature. --- Mathematics and literature. --- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Landscape in literature --- Literature and mathematics --- Literature --- Coleridge, S. T. --- Kolʹridzh, Samuil, --- Кольридж, Самуил, --- Kolʹridzh, Samuil Teĭlor, --- Кольридж, Самуил Тейлор, --- Kūlīridzh, Ṣāmwīl Tīlūr, --- קולרידג׳, סמיואל טיילור --- Kūlīridj, Ṣāmwīl Tīlūr, --- كولردج، صمويل تيلور, --- קאָלרידש, ס. ט.,