. . "Th\u00E9\u00E2tre (genre litt\u00E9raire) -- Langage" . . "Litt\u00E9rature africaine" . . "Text" . . . . "Solipsisme" . "Distance" . "Trag\u00E9die" . . "Scepticisme" . . . . "2014" . . . . "Soyinka" . "Formalisme" . "Soyinka, Wole (1934-....) -- Critique et interpr\u00E9tation" . . . "Le titre anglais de cette th\u00E8se, Soyinka\u2019s Language \u2013 calqu\u00E9 sur celui de l\u2019ouvrage de Frank Kermode, Shakespeare\u2019s Language \u2013 est traduit librement en fran\u00E7ais par Les mots de Soyinka en mouvement pour \u00E9voquer la richesse po\u00E9tique de \u2018language\u2019 dans ce contexte litt\u00E9raire. Cette \u00E9tude adopte l\u2019approche de Kermode pour analyser un corpus d\u2019oeuvres de Wole Soyinka (neuf pi\u00E8ces de th\u00E9\u00E2tre et deux essais), dans la tradition critique anglaise de \u2018close reading\u2019. Les mots nous p\u00E9n\u00E8trent malgr\u00E9 nos efforts pour nous tenir \u00E0 l\u2019\u00E9cart de l\u2019exp\u00E9rience (The Lion and the Jewel; le diptyque Jero). Ils peuvent \u00E9galement rendre concret le passage d\u2019un monde \u00E0 un autre \u2013 par exemple, \u00E0 travers un vocabulaire p\u00E9dagogique qui tombe rapidement en d\u00E9su\u00E9tude (The Road; Madmen and Specialists). Comment exprimer, comment articuler sur sc\u00E8ne la notion ambivalente de la distance \u2013 d\u2019un c\u00F4t\u00E9, la distance de la th\u00E9orie, de l\u2019objectivit\u00E9; de l\u2019autre, l\u2019absence d\u2019empathie, de compr\u00E9hension humaine \u2013 (The Strong Breed, A Dance of the Forests, The Bacchae of Euripides, et The Burden of Memory)? Il s\u2019agit d\u2019un probl\u00E8me rh\u00E9torique qui s\u2019apparente \u00E0 un risque d\u2019autarcie ou de solipsisme. D\u00E9samorc\u00E9 dans la prose de The Man Died, ce risque sert de repoussoir, pour Soyinka dans Myth, Literature and the African World, \u00E0 l\u2019articulation d\u2019une conception (yoruba) de l\u2019existence, dont les tensions constitutives s\u2019expriment \u00E0 travers les ressources rh\u00E9toriques de la po\u00E9sie orale. Cette \u00E9tude se termine par une lecture de Death and the King\u2019s Horseman, expression exemplaire de la tension entre l\u2019affirmation de soi et le retour \u00E0 la communaut\u00E9, entre l\u2019\u00EAtre et le non-\u00EAtre." . "Soyinka's language" . "Th\u00E8ses et \u00E9crits acad\u00E9miques" . . "Soyinka's language" . "The title of this thesis is an allusion to Frank Kermode\u2019s Shakespeare\u2019s Language. There, Kermode directed his attentions to Shakespeare\u2019s dramatic verse, its poetry, demonstrating how the demands which words make on the ear might attune us to the insinuating possibilities of language, if attended to by a patient reader. This thesis adopts the same methodological principle, in approaching a number of Wole Soyinka\u2019s dramatic and prose works in English. Throughout, it is concerned with his intelligence as expressed through literature. To this end, it does not hesitate to speculate, in the manner of Shklovsky, as to schemata which Soyinka might have used in order to \u2018make\u2019 his works. At the same time, it sees in formalism, for writer and would-be critic alike, the danger of words\u2019 being cut off from the common human constituency and experience which assure their meaning. Words penetrate us, undermine our attempts to stand apart, draw us into a realm of consequence (The Lion and the Jewel; the Jero plays). Consequence, in turn, implies passage between two distinct moments, inviting us to reflect on how language can become strange (The Road; Madmen and Specialists). What happens to words in one who is content to look on from a distance, instead of participating? This is the starting point for a discussion of Soyinka\u2019s interrogations of justice in The Strong Breed, A Dance of the Forests, The Bacchae of Euripides and The Burden of Memory. Implicit in onlooking is the risk of self-sufficiency. Warded off in the prose of The Man Died, self-sufficiency provides a foil to a Yoruba conception of being and tragedy, as articulated in Myth, Literature and the African World. The study culminates in Death and the King\u2019s Horseman, which best enacts the tension between self-assertion and commonality, departure and return, being and non-being, in and through poetic language." . . "Les mots de Soyinka en mouvement" . .