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THE SHORT PIECE, FOURSOME OF EUGÈNE IONESCO:
Considering this Analitical-Holistic Synthesis approach one methodology very promising for analyzing any communication that has a form of a conversation, the first part of this paper deals with the Foursome of EUGÈNE IONESCO as a useful tool. The value this approach is in making statistics useful in dealing with conversation analysis. Using it to map out other conversations, or real life situations, real life reports, other pieces of literature, etc. Just to see what outcomes one gets. Applied in Poetry for example and in short plays of EUGÈNE IONESCO also, it looks as a great tool for analysis of literary dialogs to show the writers' genius of skillfully weighing characters' in a whole.
In the second part, applying the above mentioned methodology and Onicescu Informational Statistics it is concluded that Foursome, a short piece is a metaphor for multiple and conflicting elements within a single human character. If in The Chairs we did not see the guests and the main character is the „chair”, here, in Foursome we see the unseen.
The applied method proves a writing genius of Ionesco, who knew that in order to get his point across of irreconcilable contradictions within human nature--he had to balance the three characters out.
Finally we develop the palimpsest we believe that The Chairs is for the Father of Absurd Theatre, playright Eugène Ionesco, sub-conciousness in creating another masterpiece, Foursome.
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NARRATIVES VERSUS ANTENARRATIVES FOR STATISTICAL CRISES EFFECTS EVALUATION
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Results are given of a cybernetic modeling and Informational Statistics application that relate to sustaining an analyses of the environmental crises in which was created the perfect narrative love poem Evening Star or Lucifer of Eminescu, and the antenarrative of Eugène Ionesco’s Absurd Theatre. Other results come from the American corporation Enron’s epic and tragic narration, and the mostly critical visual aesthetics and antenarrative spectrality described by David Boje regarding Empire Reading of Manet’s Execution of Maximilian.
The love Poem is a perfect example of Narrative as traditionally written material that takes a more linear insight to information, whereby everyone moves sequentially through stanzas and distiches and provides a beginning, middle content, and end reading. It was created in a period of profound crises in Romania and the Titu Maiorescu play as antenarrative stories tell an of an infamous game.
The Theater of the Absurd was born after the World War II Crises, and it is epitomized by its father, Eugène Ionesco, who builds perfect antenarratives. Antenarrative shifts from “What’s the story here?” composed of introduction, story and end incidents, to questions of “Why and how did this particular story emerge to dominate the stage?” meaning to “shift from linear, coherent narratives to emergent behavior of nonlinear, interactive, and fragmented antenarratives” [Boje]. Also in this paper it is shown how Informational Statistics can reveal the narratives behind the antenarrative thereby creating of a theatrical play.
In the case study of Manet’s fictional Execution of Maximilian, we propose to look into the World Wide Web and find narrated stories, taking advantage that the designed nature of the web is nonlinear, so that one can jump from topic to topic, document to document, and site to site. In the first version of the Manet work, the firing squad is dressed in rebel republican army; in the second version the uniforms are French; a wall appears and remains from the 3rd version; in the 4th version sombrero appears and some saying that is a critique of Napoleon III’s failed Mexico conquest.
For this last example we use Fuzzy Sets Theory. The most salient of fuzzy models use: (1) the intermediary value (common knowledge), and (2) the intermediary value is not important, but the extreme ones are. It is shown that the combination with planning statistical experiments and Informational Statistics make fuzzy membership function a new approach for antenarrative analysis independent of initial conditions. This feature allows new arguments to be obtained by measuring the informational gains to be discussed in art, literature or conversation. This approach can be used to obtain either complete or generalized synoptic ideograms. Several simulations or scenarios could be carried out to illustrate how the methods’ combination clarifies the „black box” of understanding complex processes in Art.
Keywords — Informational Statistics, Factorial Experiments 23, Fuzzy membership, Octav Onicescu, Mihai Eminescu, Eugène Ionesco, Enron’case, David Boje.
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