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Mpakonikóla-Geōrgopoúlou, Chará. "L'absurde dans le théâtre d’Euripide." Paris 4, 1985. http://www.theses.fr/1985PA040144.
Full textKunesova, Mariana. "L'absurde dans le théâtre français Dada et présurréaliste." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014MON30010/document.
Full textThe aim of this doctoral dissertation is to analyze the absurd as an aesthetic category in French Dada and pre-surrealist theatre between 1916 and 1923, dealing with three texts : La Première aventure céleste de Monsieur Antipyrine by Tristan Tzara (1916), S’il vous plaît, by André Breton et Philippe Soupault (written in 1919) and Les Mystères de l’amour by Roger Vitrac (written in 1923).The absurd as a theatre and drama category was examined especially at the half of the last century by the British drama critic Martin Esslin, author of the conception of the ‘theatre of the absurd’, created in order to caracterize and explain the avant-garde theatre of the 1950´s. This contribution has reached both popularity and deep critics, being considered as poignant as well as imprecise and vague. Thus, this dissertation does not use M. Esslin´s propositions as its starting point, bur attempts to define the category of the absurd in drama and theatre independently. In the conclusion, it proceeds to a comparison with M. Esslin´s contribution.The first chapter of the thesis defines the absurd as an aesthetic and theatre category. Then, it observes the evolution of the aesthetic absurd (named as such or intuitive) in theatre history, before all in France of the post-classical period. The second part analyzes the absurd elements in my corpus, as regards narrative and also discursive structures
Perrault, Jean-François. "Le langage du théâtre de l'absurde : suivi de Resolutions." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=22445.
Full textThe second section of the thesis is a play in one act entitled Resolutions. It respects the principal characteristics of the theatre of the absurd which are described and analysed in the first section.
Amir, Amal. "La poétique de l'Absurde dans le théâtre de Jean Tardieu." Paris 4, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA040025.
Full textThe poetic of absurd in the theatre of Jean Tardieu. Our study comprises three parts, each part contains two chapters. The first part entitled : l'absurde through the language of Jean Tardieu, tries to determine the objectif essence of its writing, they used tools and the processes of the absurd language, which is borrowed from the other absurd playwrights as well as the new processes of written, and of theatrical speech. The second part is the study of relationship between the language of Tardieu and its character. The absurd does it emanate of the character or of the language ? It is shown that the language is the pivot in absurdity of its theatre : this nonsense the language plays a part in the communication of subjectivity of Tardieu, the way it puts together or keeps it away from the linguist. What's influence exerts on the possibility of translating and the variety of the possible translations of its theatrical text
Beji, Saloua. "Approche du théâtre de l'absurde : Adamov, Al-Hakim, Beckett, Ionesco." Toulouse 2, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988TOU20064.
Full textThe distruptions which have taken place in the world have resulted in the loss of the religious faith. This feeling has been traduced in the theatral literature in france by beckett, adamov and ionesco. The arab world, concerned with other problems of colonisation particularly has felt later this god quest. Or is the influence of an atheistic occident which has incited al hakim to write an absurd play ? his play ya tali as sagara presents some structures of the absurd theatre. The dreamy dimension becomes the back drop of this theatre : the stereotyped language, the barriers imposed by the time and space and the inconsistency of the personages. The religious perception is also present in the relative silence of god. Beckett has waited him and concluded that he doesn't exist ; ionesco ignores him but is nevertheless obsessed by death ; adamov declares that the superior forces are those of evil. As for al hakim, his position towards his creator is different. On the one hand, he indicates the religious belief as such as it is sent since generations and on the other hand he defines his position, throughout the dervish's personage, as for god existence
Wu, Yafei. "La réception en Chine du sentiment de l'absurde dans le théâtre d'Eugène Ionesco." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014AIXM3027.
Full textThe reception of Eugène Ionesco's theatre in China has witnessed several different periods since the 1960s. This thesis involves researching the reception from three principal forms: the critique, the staging, the Chinese dramatic creation under his influence. The study is begun from a recurring reflection in reception of 'the other' and constitution of 'the self'. The Chinese traditional and modern conception of 'the other' influence always the perception of heterogeneous cultures, while her evolution since the foundation of People's Republic of China has a profound effect on reception of occidental art and literature. From critique to consecration, the interpretation of Ionesco's theatre passed by the process of rejection, refusal, distinction and identification of 'the other'. Due to an incomplete lecture, it is focused on several key words and preconceived ideas, although his political conscience remains a 'blind point'. The practice scenic of Ionesco' theatre experienced two condensed periods. These creations which are not numerous convey already the particularities of 'sinicization' and the will to construct the Chinese own cultural identity. As for the Chinese dramatic creation, the appearance of the Chinese theatre of the absurd seems to attain the equilibrium in the wobble between two poles which are borrowing from 'the other' and return to 'the self'. Instead of referring to the whole occidental theatre of the absurd, but to Ionesco's theatre, this theatre demonstrates the similitude.The reception of Ionesco's theatre, a specific case of reception of the other's culture, retraces also the way of the cultural identity's re-establishment in contemporary China
You, Kwang-Joo. "Eléments d'analyse comparée du théâtre de Beckett et de Ionesco." Paris 8, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA081657.
Full textLee, Yong-Seog. "Recherches sur le langage des gestes dans le théâtre de l'absurde : Samuel Beckett et Boris Vian." Paris 4, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA040181.
Full textThe objective of this thesis is to reveal and analyze body language in Samuel Beckett and Boris Vian's absurd theater. The insurrection of body and motion language is one of the essential elements in their theater work. The abundance and precision of the body language in the Beckett and Vian characters, their functioning, esthetic and meaning constitute an object of study of considerable importance. Repetitive, fragmentary, serial, absurd, burlesque, derisive, tragic, comic, all their adjectives that describe the nature of Beckett and Vian's body language are the source from which the dramatic elaboration derives. The body language of Beckett and Vian, as an instrument of scenic creation, as a paradoxical unity and as a tragic and comic structure, is a source of esthetic and philosophical meaning
Chamié, Rim. "Le rire paradoxal dans le théâtre d'Eugène Ionesco." Toulouse 2, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003TOU20024.
Full textLaughter is cornerstone of Ionesco's theatre. Its roots can be traced back to the works of Jarry, Kafka and the Surrealists. However, Ionesco's laughter has its own characteristics. It is a laughter that attempts to denude truth through comic travesty, through satire, but above all through modern humour that verges on the absurd, using for medium a new language characterized by a separation from the normal way of communication, by rupture between the significant and the signified. The play on words and the suppression of grammatical links allow the appearance of a senseless language, which evokes laughter. This humour is characterized by exposing character vices. Ionesco's creation are without character or identity; puppets moved by strings, shackled by the proliferation of matter, carrying in them the tragedy of human existence. Doubtless, Ionesco's laughter shows the pain and absurdity of human existence and to be liberated from it by laughter
Miron, Georgeta Elena. "Les legs de Beckett dans la dramaturgie française contemporaine." Grenoble, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010GRENL005.
Full textChalkiadaki-Michalas, Niki. "Le baroquisme dans le théâtre de Samuel Beckett." Dijon, 1995. https://nuxeo.u-bourgogne.fr/nuxeo/site/esupversions/52a702a8-4c76-406f-bc4a-9a1a5b4165bc.
Full textThis critical study attempts to uncover the baroque elements in the theatre of Samuel Beckett, which is reknown for its ascetism. As the baroque heroes, the beckettian characters are versatile and fluctate continuously between illusion and reality and attempt to conceal the precariousness of the existence by finding ways to divert themselves and others through verbal games and actions. Furthermore, one can find complementary or antithetical pairing of people, like the famous couples of the sixtheenth and seventeenth century, and the characters's miror image or hallucinations. One can add the following elements : the transgression of the bienseance code, the emergence of paradoxical situations, a rampant cruelty, the coincidentia between life and death, the distorsion of all hierarchies, the parodying of ideologies, especially of the theatre, the eccentricity of costumes stage and make-up, and the artificiality of movement and verbal expression. Finally, the plays reveals a mixture of genres, languages and expressions, the contrapuntal use of light or music with speech, the use of mirroring games, repetitions, mise en abyme and lastly the play within a play
Cloarec, Julie. "Fiction et connaissance, du théâtre à la physique : l'esthétique et les sciences du point de vue de l'acteur : vers une philosophie féconde de l'absurde." Thesis, Paris 1, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA010697.
Full textDoes not fiction, rather than arising from a sterile and dangerous illusion, engendered by a creative faculty that is too often reduced by the rationalist tradition in philosophy to nothing more than "an overactive imagination", reveal ail of its relevance and fecundity in the dual domain of esthetics and epistemology - for example in the paradoxical performance of an actor or the metaphorisation of the real by a scientific researcher, both of which draw from the source of a mimesis in which ail knowledge and ail human actions originate ? But the full theoretical and practical scope of fiction can only be found and proven when it is situated within a "philosophy of the as if, whose true filiation is to be found in a broadened Kantianism rather than in the pragmatist orthodoxy. Such a fictionalism, which allows the human mind to free itself from its conceptual habits by stressing intuition over technical intelligence, can itself do its work only by being rooted in a philosophy of the absurd which, far from reducing "the absurd man" to despair, calls for an existential decision of the "active soul" which re-awakens the spirit that lies dormant in each human individual to the demands of an existence mindful of lucidity an responsibility, for oneself and for others as for the world
Shim, Hyun. "La théâtralisation de l'absurde chez Adamov, Beckett et Ionesco." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002CLF20006.
Full textFirmo, Ana Catarina Cardoso. "Da palavra à cena e da palavra em cena : dramaturgias do absurdo em França e em Portugal." Paris 8, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA083967.
Full textThe main question that underlies this research is the brige between the written word and the theater stage in absurd dramaturgies from France and Portugal. In the French case we propose to study the dramaturgical itineraries of Ionesco and Beckett, through sets of thematic approaches which seem fundamental in the stage re-creation of their texts. In the Portuguese case we aim to look at the theater's political and legislative structure under the Estado Novo dictactorship, in order to better grasp the context in which the main representatives of the absurd movement saw their work asphyxiated by state censorship. We will try to understand the continuity of absurd theater today, by analyzing a set of recent stagings of some of these written works in France, as well as observing the reality of Portuguese absurd theater after the establishment of democracy in 1974. By confronting these two different contexts we will try to demonstrate the importance of both recreating the absurd dramaturgies of the French stage, and counteracting the invisibility of the Portuguese reality
Bencze-Rovez, Ludovic. "Le Ludique et l'absurde dans la littérature du XXè siècle : Raymond Devos et Raymond Queneau." Thesis, Cergy-Pontoise, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011CERG0569.
Full textThe absurd along with that of the “ludic” can no longer be confirmed to the domain of literary prose, but are in fact essential elements to twentieth-century intellectual thought at large. The literary fundamentals are based on the observation of the capacity of the absurd and the “ludic” to adapt to inherent constraints of the novelistic, theatrical and poetic. Our first section argue for a re-evaluation of that message focusing on specific writers that critics thus far have failed to appreciate as part of a distinctive “ludico-absurd” form. The second section focus on this emerging capacity based on studies of the work of R. Devos and R. Queneau, whose “ludico-absurd” rhetoric holds in common a surrealism. It remains popular as audiences are ever sensitive to the message of the “ludico-absurd”, while the latters having integrated it intellectually. The third section focus on the socio-cultural dimensions of the literature, concentrating on the position of the artist as well as that of the beholder. Ultimately, this paper look at the way in which the philosophy of the Absurd continue to elaborate and indeed herald a new relationship between the individual and the contemporary world
Maruéjouls-Koch, Sophie. "Le "Théâtre plastique" de Tennessee Williams : du "langage de la vision" à "l'écriture organique." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014LORR0331/document.
Full textWhen Tennessee Williams coined the phrase “plastic theater” in 1944, he described it as a language of “sounds, colors and movements,” a language freed from the limitations of words. His aim was to breathe new life into what he called “the exhausted theater of realistic conventions.” His ability to put the totality of theatrical experience into words manifests itself in the scripts of his plays. Williams is a creator of pictures, a playwright in the true sense of the word who found in painting and cinema the images he needed to elaborate his new language for the stage and move away from a “photographic likeness” he rejected because it was associated with realism. Gauguin, Van Gogh, De Chirico, Hofmann or Pollock are but a few of the many painters mentioned in his plays or essays who provided him with the means to enrich his vocabulary for the stage and lead his “plastic theater” toward “something more abstract.” But cinema also influenced him, giving him the opportunity to explore new possibilities and create a space between words and images where the elusive truth could be revealed. Images thus helped liberate Williams from the literary traditions as well as from the cultural codes that had defined and confined his writing from the very beginning. The writer who felt “wrapped up in literary style like the bandages of a mummy” found in images the subversive power he needed to express his true self and breathe life into words that he had always wanted to be “more than words.” From “the language of vision” to “organic writing,” Williams’s “plastic theater” evinces a desire for images
Helberi, Mirela. "Aliénation et absurde dans le "nouveau théâtre" : eugène Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Arthur Adamov." Thesis, Artois, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009ARTO0003/document.
Full textHaving lived through the tremendous disasters of the two world wars, three playwrights from different cultural backgrounds with different views, Eugene Ionesco the Romanian, Samuel Beckett the Irish and Arthur Adamov the Armenian opened up a new way in the 1950’s theatrical scenery, by expressing their feeling of alienation in an incomprehensible and irrational orld where human beings live the incurable experience of the Absurd. Exposing, each one in his particular manner, the condition of the human being thrown into the abyss of life, condemned to a meaningless existence which leads inevitably to strangement, the three playwrights are also building a “new”, metaphysical, symbolic and allegorical theatre, based on old raditional aesthetic and artistic procedures, yet serving a modern philosophical approach, profoundly related to existentialism. The interpretative hypothesis of this new allegorical theatre questions human life as a possible act of liberty tested in its confrontation with the feelings of alienation and absurd, capable of enlightening it by giving it meaning, throughout the analysis of each and every one of its successive strata: the philosophical and dramatic basis, the perception of the theatrical space, unveiling estranged human beings using distorted speech, presented in a devastated duration by the means of primary urges
Resche, Stéphane. "Le théâtre de Beniamino Joppolo (1906-1963) : histoires, mythes, interprétations." Thesis, Paris 10, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA100173.
Full textMy research studies Beniamino Joppolo’s (1906-1963) complete theatrical works. The first part retraces the author’s biographical, aesthetic, poetic, artistic and political life and presents, in so doing, the historical context of the elaboration of each of his forty-seven plays. This part is subdivided in four sections dealing with respectively his youth, the Milan years, the post-war period and the Parisian decade. The second part focuses on I carabinieri and the complex experience that the play, indisputably a hallmark in Joppolo’s work, generates. It presents a genetic and comparative study of the different versions of the play, and analyses Joppolo’s collaboration with playwright J. Audiberti, and the workings of its adaptation for the stage (R. Rossellini, 1962) and for the screen (J.-L. Godard, 1963). The third part tracks the many clues left by the author to explore the stage adaptations of his productions and offers personal insights into three plays, related to the absurd, expressionist and magic-realist movements. A detailed bibliography precedes the required appendices : a structured chronological table; a synopsis for each identified play; the translations of Lʼimbottigliaggio mostro [Massive traffic jam], Lʼattesa [The wait], Il fiore giallo e lʼalbero parlante [The golden flower and the talking tree], et I microzoi [The microzoons] ; Giovanni Joppolo’s, the author’s son, interview, conducted in 2013 ; three indices (names and notions, illustrations, general index)
Il nostro lavoro è incentrato sull’opera teatrale di Beniamino Joppolo (1906-1963).La prima parte segue il percorso biografico, estetico, poetico, artistico e politico di J., especifica la situazione storica in cui ogni singola opera (47 in totale) è stata elaborata. Essa èsuddivisa in quattro capitoli dedicati al periodo giovanile, agli anni milanesi, al periodo deldopoguerra e al decennio parigino.La seconda parte dettaglia l’esperienza complessa de I carabinieri, pièce simbolicadell’intera produzione teatrale joppoliana. Si costituisce di uno studio genetico comparativodelle varie versioni del testo, e di un’analisi della collaborazione di J. con il drammaturgo J.Audiberti, e delle due concretizzazioni maggiori, quella registica di R. Rossellini (1962) equella cinematografica di J.-L. Godard (1963).La terza parte riprende gli indizi dati da J. con l’obbiettivo di realizzare scenicamente leproduzioni. Essa propone inoltre un approccio più personale di tre pièce rispettivamenteassociabili alle correnti assurda, espressionista e magico-realista.Una bibliografia dettagliata precede una serie di documenti annessi indispensabili: unatabella cronologica strutturata; una presentazione sintetica di ogni pièce repertoriata; letraduzioni de Lʼimbottigliaggio mostro [Monstrueux embouteillage], Lʼattesa [Lʼattente], Ilfiore giallo e lʼalbero parlante [Paroles de fleur dʼor et dʼarbre transparent], e I microzoi [Lesanimalcules]; l’intervista di Giovanni Joppolo, figlio dell’autore (2013); e tre indici (nomi enozioni, documenti iconografici, indice generale)
Lempereur, Nathalie. "Arthur Adamov, entre modernité et engagement : lieux, acteurs et réception d'un théâtre en politique." Thesis, Paris 1, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA010595.
Full textArthur Adamov (1908-1970) is a Jess studied figure of contemporary theatre. The social and cultural point of view that we adopt allows renewing interest for this unclassifiable and playwright. Initially linked to the "absurd", he shifted towards social and political theatre; meanwhile he was getting closer to the communist party. This thesis analyzes the evolution of his theatre that never freezes but reconfigures with the transformation of theatre, political and social backgrounds. We try to bring out the engaged intellectual and the list of his various actions that reached its peak between May 1958 cri sis and the end of the Algerian war. Adamov' s work reflects the society of his time; it has been encouraged, provoked enthusiasms as well as received hard critics. Sociability and legitimation instances reconfigure around his work: theatre hall directors, magazines, producers. The places when he has been played, in France - from avant-garde halls to the "red" suburb - or abroad, determines the particular geography of theaters opened to certain political dimension as well as to a new audience. The gap between the wished and real audience, as between theorized, imagined and practical theater, form other axes. Finally, this research provides information about the reception of Adamov's works, especially the impressions and sensibilities of his time. It's all about artistic and political utopia somehow buried which will arise in its collective dimension
Dang, Benjamin. "Bouffons des temps modernes : figures de morosophes dans les oeuvres théâtrales d'Alfred Jarry, Michel de Ghelderode, Samuel Beckett, Roland Dubillard & Alain Badiou." Thesis, Normandie, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020NORMC013.
Full textEven if jesters are very popular characters, the very concept barely exists in critical vocabulary. Jesters, which play an important role in every society, can be defined throughout the history of madness, implicating a sociological and anthropological approach, as well as throughout the history of theater, located at the cross-section of arts and literature. This research sheds light on the characteristics and functions of jesters in the 20th century. The 20th century was a post-metaphysical age marked by two significant transformations. First, a “crisis of purpose” defined by Jean-François Mattéi as a loss of meaning in life. Since jesters invite us into a socio-political and a metaphysical critique, it only makes sense to question their role in that matter. Secondly, the 20th century was home to a revolution in drama, seen through linguistic experimentations, the introduction of space in theatrical theory and practice, and the exploitation of new electrical technologies that advanced the art of scenography. As natural explorers of new aesthetic forms, jesters had a great role to play in this revolution. This research questions the use of jesters in the modern times, showing how they echo the dramatic revolution, and therefore help society to overcome the crisis of purpose. The corpus is a selection of theatrical works from Alfred Jarry, Michel de Ghelderode, Samuel Beckett, Roland Dubillard and Alain Badiou. The period of investigation stretches from 1896, the year in which Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi premiered, to 2018, marked by the debut of the final segment of Alain Badiou’s saga Ahmed. This study is primarily based on textual analysis, relying heavily on stage performances documented through interviews and press articles. The first section deals with the history of jesters, from Antiquity to the beginning of the 20th century, in order to understand their role in modernity, in contrast. It allows us, in the second part, to show how jesters reappropriated symbolic attributes in modern times, under the form of a typology. The third part returns to the fundamentals of madness, insisting on linguistic creativity and on a complex form of humour, a mix of burlesque and tragic effects. Only with this understanding of jesters can we begin to uncover how they came to be named “morosophs”, meaning “wise fools”, and how they can provide solutions to the crises of modern times
Arac-Kocaman, Sengul. "Les sources du comique chez Ionesco." Paris 8, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA081772.
Full textProtin, Matthieu. "Pratique et poétique du drame : Beckett auteur-metteur en scène de son premier théâtre." Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030171.
Full textWhile staging Warten auf Godot in 1975 at the Schiller Theater, Beckett says : « I knew nothing about theater when I wrote this. » The use of the past tense points out the fact that between the writing process and the staging process, something has been learnt. What he did ignore is theater as an artistic practice, as a performance. He will discover it progressively during the 1950’s and the 1960’s and eventually will become the director of his own plays. Our work aims at showing how this shift from desk to stage will lead him to rewrite them, carrying on the creative process directly from the theatre, and, in return, how his very conception of directing is shaped by the singularity of these plays. Far from considering stage directing as a mere execution of the stage directions, Beckett dramatizes and theatricalises his works. Thus, his very conception of theater evolves from an abstract vision, drama as it appears in a literary form, to very a practical one, transforming the very theatricality at stake in his plays. Stage directing and theatre writing are then offering a constant interface, which leads to the emergence of what may be called a theatrical creation in which practical standpoint and literary creation are linked together
Gay, Marie-Christine. "Le théâtre français « de l’absurde » en RFA (1949-1989) : créations et réceptions des œuvres d’Adamov, Beckett, Genet et Ionesco outre-Rhin." Thesis, Paris 10, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA100155/document.
Full textAt the end of the 1940s, a new theatrical avant-garde appears on the small stages of the Left Bank in Paris: the theatre of the “absurd”, as conceptualised by the British drama critic Martin Esslin. This innovative dramatic writing style succeeds in establishing itself with the French and international public, and enjoys a long-lasting success in West German theatres. This thesis aims at uncovering the process of cultural transfer and the modes of reception in the Federal Republic of Germany through the main representatives of this movement: Arthur Adamov, Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet and Eugène Ionesco. Based on previously unpublished archival sources, this work retraces the path of the mediators of this cultural import, follows the chronology of the reception and highlights the diversity of the types of media used: theatre, radio and television. The individual steps through which the theatrical works were circulated in the West German theatre landscape between 1949 and 1989 will be analysed from the discovery by publishing houses via different translations, to major stage productions and finally the acceptance by the theatrical press and the general public. Thanks to its cosmopolitan nature, the theatre of the “absurd” was endowed by the West German host culture with an international dimension that contributed to its successful integration. Hence this study opens a new chapter in the history of Germany, its culture and theatre as well as, more widely, the French-German cultural relations
Street, Anna. "Comedy of the Impossible : The Power of Play in Post-war European Theatre." Thesis, Paris 4, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA040179.
Full textBy tracing the development of theories of comedy within Western philosophy, this thesis claims that anti-comic prejudices prevented comedy from being recognized as a serious genre. Comedy’s inferior status for over two thousand years is shown to correspond to an ethical model that distinguishes the real from the Ideal and affirms a Neo-Platonic vision of existence. Through numerous examples taken from a particular phenomenon of post-war European theatre comprising five different playwrights, this thesis proposes three primary characteristics of comedy: the ontological instability of comic characters, comedy’s paradoxical relation to the world of appearances, and comedy’s willingness to accommodate the impossible. By throwing binaries into question and promoting a complete reversal of dominant value systems, comedy blurs the lines of distinction between the abstract and the concrete, the mechanical and the organic and, ultimately, between life and death. Demonstrating how this reversal is accomplished linguistically, metaphorically, or dramaturgically, this study concludes that comedy subverts the socio-symbolic order that relies upon the logic of possibility
Boucher, David. "La malédiction d'Ixion : essai sur l'esthétique de l'absurde au théâtre et au cinéma." Thèse, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/17180.
Full textSéguin, Sarah-Jeanne. ""Les Journées nationales" suivi de "Quand les huissiers se saisissent de la scène : l'absurde bureaucratique dans le théâtre contemporain"." Thèse, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/5060.
Full text"La Journée nationale du pardon", "La Journée nationale de la lutte contre l’embonpoint" and "La Journée nationale de la frivolité", the three short plays collected in "Les Journées nationales", all spring from the same, seemingly eccentric idea : the obligation to celebrate any social aspect as long as it is dictated by a majority. By "legalizing" an implicitly imposed moral conduct, "Les Journées nationales", short social satires laden with black humour, dissect and analyze social norms and generally acknowledged values in order to highlight their incoherencies. "Quand les huissiers se saisissent de la scène : l’absurde bureaucratique dans le théâtre contemporain" is an essay that analyzes the processes and also points out the stakes at work in the theatre of the "bureaucratic absurd". The "bureaucratic absurd" is a phrase used to designate plays that, through nonsense, a playful and creative use of bureaucratic jargon and through the importance given to the characters’ and locations’ social connotations, express the terror felt by the playwrights towards the institutionalization of human relationships. Using four plays (Arthur Adamov’s "Le Professeur Taranne", Michel Vinaver’s "Les Travaux et les Jours", Lydie Salvayre’s "Quelques conseils utiles aux élèves huissiers" and Normand Chaurette’s "États financiers"), theoretical works on the theatre of the absurd (Esslin, Hubert), sociocriticism (Duchet) and sociology (Crozier and Friedberg, Le Breton), we will show that, through the expression of a constant tension between the intimate and the professional, the bureaucratic absurd offers a glimpse of the individual’s power and of the persistence of personal responsibility within social organizations.
Brassard, Félix. "Vers un cinéma de l'absurde : les films de Roman Polanski." Thèse, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/11580.
Full textThe idea of absurd has taken a huge amount of different meanings in thought and current speech. Some of these meanings may present important differences with others. There is at least two occurrences where the word “absurd” has been understood as a current: first, in the philosophie absurde, theorized by Albert Camus in 1942, and second, in the Theater of the Absurd (Beckett, Ionesco and others), who had his hours of glory during the 1950s. These two movements can be seen as two branches of a single current, the Absurd, who has its roots in Europe after World War II. The horrors of the conflict and the loss of faith in Christianity pushed the intellectuals and artists of this period to become very sensitive to ideas such as hostility (of men, of world...) and loneliness. Roman Polanski (1933-), film director well-known for the eclecticism of his work, showed very notable acquaintances with Absurd in many of his movies. The analysis of his art (and of the autobiographical elements that sometimes appear in it) proves a clear relation with important figures of the Absurd current, such as Camus, Kafka, Nietzsche, and European playwrights of the post-war era. This relation can be observed in themes as well as in the mise en scène of Polanski's films.
Manascurta, Calin. "Le mythe de la fin du monde dans Les chaises de Ionesco et Fin de partie de Beckett." Thèse, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/10694.
Full textWithin the theoretical and methodological framework of the figurative structuralism devised by Gilbert Durand, this work sets out to explore the Myth of the End of the World based on two corpora: five novels and two plays. Three main postulates underlie our research: a) the literary work is always based on a mythical substratum; b) myth is an aggregation of mythemes, whose defining characteristic consists in their redundancy; c) myth is a constant of the human spirit and therefore none of its versions takes precedence over another. As far as the applications of the theory are concerned, our work is articulated in two distinct phases, repeated form one section to another. Based on the body of novels, where the myth manifests itself in its most complete and abundant form, phase 1 is devoted to the identification of redundancies, both internal to each work and generic, that are categorized as mythemes. Phase 2 verifies their presence in the body of plays.