Scholars today are experimenting with a vast array of reading devices in order to explore texts anew, often blending, both on the technical and on the hermeneutical axes, traditional approaches and innovative computing tools, that collect textual features and detect trends not visible to a human eye as they exceed the span of our focus.Our understanding of poetry is not left untouched by the revolution that computational analysis is bringing to the humanities.Because of its intrinsic link to verse, poetry has been a very early object of statistical studies. Any careful examination of metres, rhymes, or caesuras is bound to generate large datasets, calling for the borrowing of methods from the exact sciences. Indeed, attempts at a mathematical evaluation of poetic styles largely predate the use of computers, and the methodological turn towards the use of new technologies has been generally well-received within the academic community. Still, is the mechanically enhanced, "nonhuman" reading of poems fruitful, or even legitimate? Must the literary scholar, whose object is a fundamentally "human" material, meet the burden of proof and possibly cast away intuitions? Conversely, can calculations account for the subtlety of our poetic experience? Is poeticity, in other words, to be found in the measurable sum of artfully assembled processes, or does it escape all normalisation efforts?Stemming from the group Plotting Poetry, a community of scholars of different language areas, working on different time periods and poetical genres, who have come together to share their findings and methods, this volume presents a rich sample of research endeavours in the field. It illustrates how a mechanically-enhanced reading can be put to the test, serve to pursue traditional hermeneutical questions, challenge certain assumptions about forms, reveal unsuspected thematic patterns, feed the approach of the literary historian, or open up new, unthought-of paths for our questionings. It is aimed both at specialists of either poetry or digital humanities, and at a broader readership curious to learn about computational approaches to poetry studies.

Diane Magali Gavaud écrit des histoires, des poèmes et des paroles de chansons depuis son plus jeune âge. S'appuyant sur ses propres expériences, elle a rédigé cet ouvrage.À travers celui-ci, elle véhicule un message d'espoir pour toutes les personnes malades ou souffrant d'un handicap. Elle démontre qu'avec de l'amour et de la volonté, on peut tout surmonter.Sans aucune prétention ni aucune intention d'accuser qui que ce soit, elle sensibilise sur les travers de la société et célèbre en contrepartie les individus empreints d'humanité et d'équité.Son objectif réside dans la lutte contre les préjugés et les fausses conceptions que l'on entretient trop fréquemment à l'égard des personnes en situation de handicap.