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Gutierrez, Laffond Aurore. "Théâtre et magie dans la littérature dramatique du XVIIè siècle." Toulouse 2, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998TOU20067.
Full textThe purpose of this study, "theatre and magic in the dramatic literature of the 17th century" is to show how and why the theatre of that century reflected the different forms of the irrational. It is meant to shed light on a subject often left in the shade, perhaps on account of the prevailing image of French classicism yearning for order, reason and clarity. Pre-scientific thinking in the early 17th century remained indeed highly dependent on the learned magic of the renaissance. Kepler and Galilee were as many astrologers as astronomers and the passing of a comet, seriously interpreted as an ill-fated foreboding still in 1680, spread terror among the population. Medicine was still astrophile and influenced by Paracelsus's theory of marks. The most enlightened minds remained under the spell of the marvelous, kept alive and renewed by emblematic. Royal mystic under Louis XIV took on a magic dimension, magnified by the solar emblem. Awe of the devil and of woman assumed the form of witch hunting until after 1650 through the affairs of possession of Loudun, Louviers, and Aix. . . Etc. The Affair of the Poisons in 1679 was also a resurgence of the magic spells and black masses. The first part of the study analyses the reality of this magic. How this magic mentality was depicted varied with the literary genres. Such serious genres as tragedy, musical tragedy and to a lesser extent tragi-comedy - in the second part of the study - reveal the constant fascination of the 17th century for the magic marvelous, both veiled and sublimated by myths. Armida's gardens were the symbol of the dream of love just as the destruction of the enchanted palace was the symbol of its impossibility. Magic in comedy, developed in the third part, reflects more directly the reality of magic and of its avatar, witchcraft. The theme showed a great variety of registers in the pre-Moliere productions, in pastorals, tragi-comedies and comedies. Sometimes a lofty poetry is inspired by the baroque themes of the illusion, of the mirror, of the metamorphosis of the self and of the world, of the dead-alive, while the theme of the devil, the witch and the satire played upon the whole spectrum of laughter. From Moliere onwards comedy stressed the denunciation of imposture previously initiated with a determination that testified to the long-lasting survival of superstition and the ancient magic mentality
Losada-Goya, José-Manuel. "La conception de l'honneur dans le théâtre espagnol et français du XVIIe siècle." Paris 4, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990PA040089.
Full textIn the first scholarly part of this work, the author expounds the main characteristics of seventeenth century Spanish comedy and deals with the vicissitudes of its adaptation to the French scene at the time. This finer investigation will later on enable the author to tackle the four ways in which honor is considered in those plays, namely as reputation, as virtue, as lineage, as purity of blood. In the last part of his work, Mr Losada Goya studies the loss and recovery of one's honor: the consequences of losing it, the various ways of recovering it ranging from reasonable accommodation to bloody revenge. This thesis which includes forty-two corresponding Spanish and French plays uses a comparative literature approach, the author thus pointing out the main resemblances and differences in the way honor is seen and treated in seventeenth century Spanish and French theatre
Satapatpattana, Suwanna. "Traduction dramatique de l'amour dans le théâtre français du dix-septième siècle (1620-1640)." Paris 4, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA040227.
Full textThe French theatre in the beginning of the 17th century presents the sentimental adventures which reflect the different ideologies of love. In this dramatic world where love is the principal factor of plot, the characters let themselves be guided by numerous codes of passion and react according to certain conventional procedures. On the way to amorous conquest, some of them idealize their emotion, make the beloved an object of devotion, and in order to deserve it - try to perfect the virtues of faithfulness and bravery. Others, being victims of the ardent passion, do not hesitate to satisfy their instinct, even by committing murderous acts. Some others indulge in flighty love and pass from one sensual pleasure to another. As different as they are, all these lovers make an effort to fulfil their desires. Inspired by the force of love, they apply a typical language full of comparisons and images, which does revive the poetic world of Petrarch
Poirson, Martial. "Comédie et économie : argent, moral et intérêt dans les formes comiques du théâtre français (1673-1789)." Paris 10, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA100146.
Full textKarsenti, Tiphaine. "Le détour troyen : formes et fonctions de la matière troyenne dans le théâtre français des guerres de religion et la fin du règne de Louis XIV." Paris 10, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA100183.
Full textThe myth of Troy provided more subject matter to 16th and 17th century French playwrights than any other ancient fable. The exceptional scope of this legend, the multitude of its scenes and characters, and the variety of available themes and viewpoints can partly explain this phenomenon. Yet this study seeks to demonstrate how the Trojan myth, through its unique legacy and structure, served as a model for exploring the problematics of an era marked by massive political and cultural transformation : the second half of the 16th century saw the birth of both the modern State and the modern theatre. Throughout the 150-year period which followed this simultaneous development, the use of the Trojan theme in different dramatic contexts can be understood in the light of the progression of aesthetic, political, ethical and theological ideas that accompanied the cultural transition at hand
Hillerin, Alexis de. "Image du roi, image du père dans le théâtre français du XVIIIe siècle (1715-1789)." Paris 4, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA040086.
Full textMarchand, Sophie. "Théâtre et pathétique au dix-huitième siècle : pour une esthétique de l'effet dramatique." Paris 4, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA040111.
Full textThe taste for tears and the ethics of sensibility deeply influence the theatrical practice and theory of the Enlightenment. An original dramatic model elaborates itself from the efficiency of pathos considered as a sentimental adhesion. The analysis of theoretical texts allows a description of this homogenous and coherent system's constitutive elements. The disruptions induced in the dramatic thought by the pathetic expectations are considered first : the promotion of the effect to the rank of a decisive criterion of value, the change from a pœtics of beauty to an aesthetics of pleasure, the effects of the lacrymomania on the genres. Then, the examination of dramatic texts sheds light on the emergence of a rhetoric and a dramaturgy spécifique to the pathos. Finally, the beholder's viewpoint is analysed and the pathetic experience considered, in order to understand how the drama gets integrated into the philosophical system of the Enlightenmnent
Lee, Eun-Ha. "Les Jeux et les tourments de l'amour dans le théâtre de Molière." Paris 3, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1992PA030057.
Full textThe but of this study is to discover the role of the love in the theatre of moliere, having regard to his dramaturgy. In view of the thematic study, this subject is too vast, so we restrict our research to the games and the torments of the love. Love is comic and tragic at once : how complex is the relationship between the happiness and the unhappiness of the love in the comedies of moliere ?
Félix, Clélia. "L'héroi͏̈sme dans le théâtre de Corneille du Cid à Polyeucte." Montpellier 3, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001MON30022.
Full textCoulaud, Sandra. "Crime, histoire et politique : la représentation du régicide dans le théâtre anglais et français au tournant du XVIe et du XVIIe siècle." Thesis, Paris 4, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA040070.
Full textThe regicide is a topical crime between the sixteenth and the seventeenth-century. It is an object of many reflections and an actual event for french and english people. In both kingdom, there are debates on this issue while the schism has begun a reality. Because of the controversy, it is possible to speack about régicide as a punishment. Playwrighters perform this problematic subject. Jacques de Fonteny represent the murder of Henri Ird, Claude Billard de Courgenay represent Henri IVrth’s one, Antoine de Montchrestien represent the execution of Marie Stuart, Shakespeare and Marlowe perform the murders of Richard IInd et Edward IInd. A priori, such subject can move the audience. Nevertheless, such a performance isn’t an evidence. How, indeed, can a playwrighter show such an enormous crime during troubled period ? How can he justify the show in a crisis context ? Playwrighters have to consider ideological and aesthetic restrictions, which are sometimes in contradiction, to perform the murder of the sovereign. In many cases, they rewright history. Because the crime is usually ineffective as a politic action, it is effective for dramatic art. Tyranny justify that the prince is murdered. Some moral failures make this one acceptable. And because the king is falling, he appears as a pathetic victim for the spectators. When it is difficult to show the crime scene, the regicide is described by a messenger
Beer, Cécile. "La rivalité amoureuse entre père et fils sur la scène française du XVIIe siècle : un schème transgénérique (1631-1685)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA040086.
Full textThis thesis questions the scheme of the amorous rivalry between father and son which was used for the first time in all genres in seventeenth century French theatre. The research is based on a representative corpus of three dramatic genres of the period – comedy, tragi-comedy and tragedy – and includes about forty plays. The objective of this study is to demonstrate that this dramatic structure is doubly subversive in the period of the seventeenth century. On the aesthetic level, this conflict overcomes the stage even though the theoretic discourses of the period aimed to separate and classify dramatic genres according to a hierarchical system. The thesis studies the strategies developed by dramatists to adapt this dramatic scheme to aesthetic rules specific to each dramatic genre. On the ideological level, this type of conflict brings out the rivalry between the two representative males of the lineage. In the particular context of the seventeenth century, defined by historians as “l’âge d’or des pères”, this leads to reconsideration of the sociopolitical and religious functioning of the so-called “Ancien Regime”. Through the triumph of the rival son, is the authority of the patriarch challenged, and consequently, the one of the king in the state? Or, on the contrary, does the highlighting of the victory of the rival father reassert the legitimacy of the well-founded system? Would the rivalry between father and son, under its gallant appearances, bring a more serious speech and reveal an evolution in society? How does the gallantry, by transcending the limits of the dramatic genres, question politics? This study is based on these two aesthetic and ideological questions
Lo, Shih-Lung. "La Chine dans le théâtre français du XIXe siècle." Thesis, Paris 3, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA030030/document.
Full textFrom 1789 to 1905, China is one of the most exotic topics represented on the French theater stage. This China can evoke the imagination inherited from the eighteenth-century “chinoiseries” taste. And moreover, it witnesses the nineteenth-century Sino-French socio-political events, which are never detached from the rising colonialism or even the Orientalism.This work attempts to build up a repertoire of Chinese-subject plays, and to analyze the production and the reception of the Chinese image on the French theatre stage during the nineteenth century. The corpus of the entire repertoire can be divided into three categories: the French playwright’s creation, the plays translated or adapted from Chinese literary works, and the performances given by Chinese actors. Chronologically organized, each chapter in this work follows the decisive Sino-French bilateral events. The first three chapters examine the Chinese and Oriental elements which have been applied to the French theatre in the previous centuries, and which are reinvented and appropriated under the influence of Sinology, a new scientific discipline institutionalized in the first half of the nineteenth century. The last three chapters develop with the two Opium Wars, the Sino-French War in Vietnam, the Boxer’s rebellion, as well as the birth of the concept of the “yellow peril.”For the playwrights and the artists, this “China” is therefore familiar but strange, approachable but intangible, cliché but ever-changing, exhausted but exploitable. All these contradictions contribute to create a kaleidoscopic China on the French theatre stage
Jaziri, Anissa. "Drôlerie et noblesse : l'esthétique et l'éthique du corps des aristocrates à l'épreuve des dramaturgies comiques et tragi-comiques du XVIIe siècle français." Thesis, Paris 10, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA100004/document.
Full textWhile the body of the common people has inspired many sociological and anthropological approaches, our research has focused on the study of the body image of aristocratic characters in french seventeenth century comic and tragic dramaturgies.Although the often heroic presence of this social category is part of the so-called "noble" genre of tragedy, it is, and according to a long Aristotelian tradition, banned from the comic genre considered more susceptible to the mediocre, even the ugly, physical and moral, and to consider things of the body. Based on a corpus of sixty comedies and tragicomedies dating from 1629 to 1690, our study of the physical images of the nobles then leads to a particular aesthetic that makes us question the compatibility between the often idealizing representation of the "honest men" and laughter. However, to highlight the pleasant presence of the noble body on stage, we referred to a more subtle notion than the comic, that of the drollery which lies between the approval of the celebration of the beauties of the aristocrats concerned by the action and the pleasant awareness of the excesses of this perfection, between the disconcerting inventiveness, even the grandeur, of the nobles who disguise themselves and the bursts of laughter inspired by some of their bodily or natural defects or failures, between the amused spectacle of their sensuality little annoyed or casual, the exultation aroused by their militant libertinism, which makes you think, and a kind of unease in front of the cynicism of the few, between the admiration of the talents of actors allowing good tricks, thanks to a beautiful gestural dexterity, and the jubilation inspired by the success of well-born protagonists. The stakes become even higher when it comes to the desire for freedom that the bodies express on stage, especially those of women when violent excesses or hypocritical behavior are represented. So many rich impressions that amplifies the setting in space and in voice by actors who also let hear a kind of mystery of the words. All the shades of drollery, of a comic that we perceive as a little strange, seem to have been experienced by our dramatic poets to bring the nobles to the comic scene and, at one time, to the mixed genre of tragi-comedy
Licha-Zinck, Alexandra. "La vertu de l'héroïne tragique (1553-1653)." Paris 4, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA040079.
Full textIn plays, feminine virtue appears in the words and actions of the heroine : they give a definition of her tragic "ethos" more than they illustrate the traditional moral categories. Therefore, this virtue represents a dramatic and aesthetic object shaped by, and for, the tragic "mimesis". This female character, from the humanist tragedy by Jodelle to the palys bu Corneille during the insurrection of the Fronde, probably reveals an ideology belonging to each literary period. But virtue, redefined by the thoereticians, allows the dramatic creation of the character, especially when the theatrical pleasure and dramatic constraints are more important than the wish for moral instruction and the illustration of a coherent moral speech established by tradition. Being a dramatic object, virtue must be shown ; this challenge, consisting in showing moral perfection which is by definition less scenic than passions, implies an aesthetic coding for the representation. This feminine virtue would then become the idealized, mimetic -according to the definition given by Aristotles- representation of of the ethics of a society. The notion of virtue appears trough the female character in its diferent traditional aspects which are often opposed and mixed : Christian and stoïcal, heroic and moral, male and female, active and passive. As with the passions, this notion of virtue would have been turned into play material by tragic playwrights, sometimes to the detriment of the philosophical and moral virtues. Virtue itself would then become a passion like any other in stage in order to create tragic pleasure
Ding, Ruoting. "La Légitimité visible. L’usurpation du pouvoir dans le théâtre français du XVIIe siècle (1636-1696)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA040075.
Full textThis piece of work studies the mobilization of concepts relating to legitimacy and usurpation in classical French theater. The corpus includes all plays (tragedies, tragi-comedies and heroic comedies) representing state-level disruptions linked to usurpation from 1630 to the end of the seventeenth century. If the representation of extraordinary political disorders makes the subject of a play more elevated, it also implies a referential dimension that could give rise to a complication, especially in a France where absolutism was taking shape. Yet it is precisely this problem that warrants the value of the theme of usurpation. Once dramaturgically mobilized, the ideological and moral reference constitutes a structural element that creates the dramatic effect, which ensures the circle of the action and echoes a poetic vision. At the same time, through these dramaturgical features, the plays construct their meaning, which besides reflecting absolutist ideology can sometimes deviate from contemporary political thought. This study hinges on three concepts – the right to rule, the duty to rule and the will to rule. The analysis of the concrete means of their implementation is followed by a reflection on the evolution of the treatment of the theme throughout the century as well as on the complex relationship between ideology and dramaturgy
Stephan, Hayek Christelle. "Linguistique et rhétorique du monologue dans le théâtre racinien." Paris 3, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA030042.
Full textWe have approached the particular form of language which is the monologue, to concentrate our interest on the place occupied by this form in Racine’s plays. As the analysis progressed, the monologue, that was intuitively defined as a speech held by a character to itself, became an inexhaustible mine of linguistic, pragmatic and rhetorical richness. However, the best way to analyze a linguistic form is to focus on the language that constitutes its framework, as well as on the components that turn it into a form of speech. We have tried, in the first part, to define the monologue starting from the lexicological and etymological definitions and ending up with a dramaturgical characterization of this particular form of theatrical speech; the second chapter has been exclusively dedicated to various aspects of the Racine’s monologues. In the third chapter, we have established a comparison between our corpus and the Cornelian monologues. Then, in the second part, we have only been interested in the Racine’s monologues, throughout a narrow linguistic analysis of the thirty monologs contained in his plays, revealing one by one, each of the ruling metric, syntactic and lexical mechanisms, and exploring the specificities of the communication in this so particular form of speech. The third part has been dedicated to the analysis of Racine's monologues using the concepts of rhetoric and pragmatic
Einman, Maria. "Lector in drama. Les enjeux fictionnels et imaginaires du suicide dans le théâtre français du XIXe siècle." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCA048/document.
Full textThis study examines the reading of drama texts as the reading of fictional texts, aiming to broaden the current approach according to which the reading of drama texts is mainly limited to text analysis. This question is examined in the light of the issue of suicide in 19th-century French drama. The principal aim of this study is therefore to understand the impact of the character’s suicide on the reader via the detailed analysis of the ins and outs of the suicidal act. The study applies Vincent Jouve’s concept of the virtual reader, who is defined as an implicit and atemporal recipient of the text effects. This reader emerges in a fictional world that is supported by an operative device (dispositif) based on the Lacanian triptych of the Real, the Symbolic and the Imaginary.The dissertation consists of five chapters. The theoretical discussion is followed by four chapters that deal, respectively, with melodrama, romantic drama, naturalist drama, and symbolist drama. In addition to the effect of the fictional suicide on the reader (which is systematically connected to the catharsis), the evolution of theatrical genres and forms is explored from the perspective of “virtual” reading. Thereby, the reading of 19th-century French drama could be viewed as a journey from the optimistic certainty of melodrama to the tragic indeterminacy of symbolist drama, from actual to probable suicides, from “sorrowful” catharsis to anticatharsis
Rykner, Arnaud. "Dramaturgie du silence de l'âge classique à Maeterlinck." Paris 4, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA040319.
Full textFrom 1620-1630 to the beginning of the XXth century,in France,the concept of 'theatre' was enlarged. Before Diderot,french drama was based upon dialogue alone and rejected silence,which seldom happened. .
Rosenfeld, Pierre-Louis. "Les tragi-comédies de Georges de Scudéry, un théâtre donné à voir : l’œil entre le monde, le spectacle et la peinture." Thesis, Paris 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA030067.
Full textOne of the components of the theater is what Aristotle calls opsis in Poetics : the spectacle, the donné à voir. In the first seventeenth century, a genre and an author illustrate this component. Under the reign of Louis XIII and the government of Richelieu, tragi-comedy is fashionable and characterized by its spectacular size. Among the authors who practice this genre and defend its specificity, Georges de Scudéry is one of the most prolific and more closely interested in painting, the art of vision par excellence. Our study focuses on the construction of the spectatorial gaze in the tragi-comédies of Georges de Scudéry. Four aspects are examined : the relationship between tragi-comedies and current affairs through a common imaginary, the driving forces of the spectacular as stated by the theoreticians and dramatic authors of the 1630s, the way Scudéry gives his plays to see and finally three traits of his dramaturgy (visual suspense, circulation of looks, reference to painting). The prologue examines a founding scene of the reign of Louis XIII, the "coup de majesté" of April 1617 that brought effectively the king to power. This scene was first rehearsed, then danced before the court, finally performed for real with the death of the Concini couple. But it was not over, the theater took it and continued to play it. The first part deals with the emblematic events of the reign of Louis XIII and the government of Richelieu, and analyzes the reflections that he could have left in the dramatic production of the time, especially in tragi-comedies. The second part establishes an inventory of the various forms of entertainment that were current during this period and the comments they generated. The third part analyzes the spectacular dimension of Scudery's tragi-comedies, first from the didascalies, then according to four criteria (the subject of the play and its reference to the world, the visual apparatus put in place, the visual initiatives that emanate from the show, the experience of the risk to which the show is sensitive), finally through the frontispieces of the editions. The fourth part examines in the donné à voir what is no longer related to surprise, but to the deepening of the vision in three aspects : the visual mechanics of suspense, the circulation of the gaze and its functions (admiration, power exercising, knowing), references to the world of painting and to the use of pictorial techniques (portrait, landscape). Keywords
Laurin, Cécilia. "Admirables criminels : éthique et poétique du spectaculaire dans le théâtre de Pierre Corneille." Thesis, Paris 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA030066.
Full textThe present study questions the use and operation of criminality in Pierre Corneille’s plays, in a double aspect : through the elaboration of the ethos of great criminal characters and through the effects of their spectacularization upon the stage – the latter depending on the former – based on an analysis of the aesthetics of admiration [wonder] that the playwright produces. It tends to show how operates and is operated the « wonderization » of such characters, which allows an exceptionally reflexive dialectical tension between essences and appearances and a reflection of the power of spectacularity, especially through feminine characters, which are here considered as mirroring images of the power of theatrical art itself. It interrogates more generally the question of agency, and its functioning interactions between activity and passivity, between action and passion. Eventually, the amazing criminals, not unlike any cornelian subject, appears to be freely defined by their greatest passion of all : self-passion, which can serve as an alternative name for their « gloire ». Their spectacularization thus revolves around a dramatization of the self, unveiling and offering it to the eyes of the rest of the world, in an attempt to make the projective ethos coincide with the effective ethos. Such dynamics are often characterized by fatal leanings, death being the ultimate expression of their gloire upon the stage
Johansson, Franz. "Le corps dans le théâtre de Paul Valéry." Paris 4, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA040059.
Full textAmong all the literary genres, theatre deals with the human body in a unique way: not only is the body figured in a play but it also becomes a substance, an instrument, a presence on the stage. A playwright will always, in some way or another, be confronted with the body in the meaning of its biological constitution, its shape and movement, its resources and limitations and, ultimately, its essence. Theatre is therefore one of the most interesting fields for studying Valéry’s approach to the human body : in no other part of his work does the writer embrace the body in such an immediate, complex, profound - and nonetheless problematic and ambiguous -way. Valéry is an immense artist of the body. The first part of this work explores how Valéry contemplates the experience of theatrical embodiment: do his dramatic works and projects need and call on the actor’s active matter ? Or do they, at least, tolerate it ? The second part analyses the different ways in which Valéry’s aesthetic principles incorporate the presence and movement of the body in dramatic writing: how are the expressive means of the actor seized and transformed by artistic conventions, processes or techniques ? The last part aims to specify the conceptions of the body that emerge from Valéry’s plays and drafts: what does this theatre, as a language of the body, tell us about the human body ?
Pocquet, du Haut-Jussé Tiphaine. "La Mémoire de l’oubli. La tragédie française entre 1629 à 1653." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCA135.
Full textHenry the 4th ends the religious civil wars in 1598 by ordaining that the remembrance of troubles is « extinguished and abated, like something that did not occur ». How does French drama stand in relation with this politics of oblivion ? What kind of memorial space does it open ? We consider tragedies written between 1629, official end of the troubles and date of publication of the last usual times tragedy, and 1653, end of a new internal division threat embodied by the Fronde. In appearance, tragedy seems to forget a harrowing recent past by turning away from it, but it is simultaneously deeply influenced by what has been forgotten. By starting with what is most visible, the staging of merciful princes, we demonstrate that this official and voluntary oblivion is very much represented on the tragic stage. But forgetfulness is also influencing tragedies in their displaying of family feuds, a frequent tragic topic of these times. Tragedy thus makes surface the present of the past, the memory of division, through allegoric detours. A double-face drama emerges : one of melancholy in which past weighs on present, one of historical reset with an ouverture for renascent prospects. Last, in these years of dramatic theorization, forgetfulness appears to be, for a spectator absorbed by the play, an ideal, as well as it can drag the most naive of them and some comedians into forgetting about their selves in denial of reality and confusion with fiction. The fundamental ambiguity of forgetfulness enables to articulate political theory, drama and staging, in a 17th century where violence is thought to threaten the community with division
Gregorio, Amélie. "L’«Arabe» dans le théâtre français, du début de la colonisation de l’Algérie aux grandes expositions coloniales (1830-1931) : de représentations en discours." Thesis, Lyon, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LYSE2105.
Full textSince 1830, drama has taken over the Algerian conquest theme then backed the colonial expansion in North Africa, two major events which marked French political life from the 19th century to the early 20th century. As a real social and cultural overall phenomenon, it has strongly contributed to impose the colonial spirit and the empire idea into people's minds. But to what extent exactly has it played a cultural role in this expansion and domination policy? At what frequency and with which inflexions? Which representations of the "Arab" has drama conveyed, and how has it transformed them into an ideological discourse, through a live performance received by a given audience? Has it also been a place of distancing, even contesting colonization? Otherness is put into words with drama, but it is also and mostly brought onto the scene through the body and the voice of the actor, almost always French and white. The other "native", the one who puts question, worries or fascinates, gains an enhanced visibility, for the time of the performance. Otherness is reduced to stereotypes by some authors while others call them into question. The image of the Arab – but also of the Kabylian, the Tuareg, and the mixed-race – has followed the ideological currents that have underlain the great steps of the colonial expansion, until the beginnings of the decolonization movement. On the aesthetic level, is the representation of the "Arab" the opportunity of a renewal in terms of performance, language, setting, and costumes? Does seeking "exoticism" in spectacular forms give sometimes way to concern about meeting and knowing, or acknowledging, the other? The literary, cultural, social and historical significance of the subject requires to mobilize and cross aesthetic, dramaturgic, sociocritical and post colonial approaches
Deharbe, Charlène. "La porosité des genres littéraires au XVIIIe siècle : le roman-mémoires et le théâtre." Thesis, Reims, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012REIML002/document.
Full textThis study is meant to highlight the influence of drama on the (French) memoir-novels of the 18th century. The narrator, be it a man or a woman, recollects his or her life from the moment they are coming into the world. This evocation and analysis of their earlier “I” is recalled in a first person narrative. The idea is to recount his or her social ascension, step by step, evoke his or her past mistakes and relate an unrequited love, in a tragic, sensitive or comic tone. Yet, these introspective novels paradoxically reach a theatrical dimension. The then famous playwrights are turned into fictional characters, their works are quoted, the heroes go to places where the art of drama is performed and, most importantly, the novelist resorts to elements which are characteristic features of drama : costumes, variations on specific characters and scenes, a dramatic construction, the use of the aesthetics of the tableau, the extent and distribution of the dialogues ; all of these contribute to place the reader in the position of the audience
Chiari-Lasserre, Sophie. "L'image du labyrinthe dans la culture et la littérature de la Renaissance anglaise : origines, diffusion, appropriations et interprétations." Montpellier 3, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003MON30086.
Full textIn the Elizabethan period, the image of the labyrinth was being re-appropriated in several ways, all based on an ideal first championed by Horace : discordia concors. Throughout Antiquity, the story related to Theseus and the Minotaur had been retold many times, by authors such as Pliny, Ovid, Plutarch, whose texts were to be digested by translators. Renaissance England could boast, too, of an impressive medieval heritage, which favoured the didactic transmission of the myth : the influence of clerical writings linked to the idea of the unicursal maze, one way leading to God, contributed to the popularization of the legend. Gradually, the symbol was secularized during the sixteenth century. Although mythic multicursal paths proliferated in gardens, representations, danse and poetry, they reached their climax on stage. As an obsessional motif, the labyrinth is a hermeneutic key revealing new interpretative tracks exploring a multisemic theatre, whose possibilities remain to be exploited
Odagiri, Mitsutaka. "Le mythe d'Œdipe dans le théâtre français du XVIème siècle à nos jours." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA040141.
Full textThis work attempts to contribute to the study of the Oedipus myth in the history of modern French theatre from the sixteenth century to the present day. In the first section, we attempt to give prominence to the relationship between the myth and literature in. We then, in two further sections, endeavour to describe the diachronic path of the development of this myth, in order to highlight both the variation and constancy in the essential components of the Oedipus myth. In the fourth section, we attempt to adopt a synchronic approach in order to demonstrate the different ideological aspects which, for each dramatist, endorse the palimpsest style of the Oedipus myth. This is done particularly from the philosophical, psychoanalytical and metaphysical points of view
Rentzepi, Maria. "La mise en scène du monde grec dans le théâtre français, 1920-1950." Paris 4, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA040122.
Full textNtantinakis, Konstantinos. "Femmes et pouvoir dans le théâtre tragique crétois (1590-1647)." Paris 3, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA030020.
Full textThe Cretan Theatre (1590-1647) is the only theatre existing in Crete following the ancient classic theatre and is also the only theatrical sign in the Greek Renaissance. The question "Women and authority" in the tragic plays (Erophile and Delivered Jerusalem of G. Chortatzis, The Abraham's sacrifice of anonymous author, Rodolinos of I. A. TroÔlos) presents a great interest on women's situation in Crete, during that period, facing the multiple sides of authority. Despite the universality of that theatre and its influences from the Italian theatre, women's characters are absolutely Greek and they also bring the echo of a forgotten world, the matriarchal period. The rhetoric of women's characters doesn't only lead the reader into the mere problem of love but also into a sociopolitical problem: the heroines allow the authors to personify ideas that they cherish, in a serious historical reality, under the Venetian occupation and the Turkish threat. The heroines' exhortations against the varied machinery of the power they suffer from reflect the soul of a people without hope under the burden of a tyrannical power
Vincent-Cassy, Cécile. "Les "chemins du ciel" : sainteté féminine, martyre et patronage en Espagne sous Philippe III (1598-1621) et Philippe IV (1621-1665)." Paris 3, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA030147.
Full textIn the XVIIh century, Virgin Martyrs worship in the Spanish royal court, and particularly in the Royal Convent of the Encarnación, funded by Queen Margaret of Habsburg in 1611, is linked to the “Catacombs spirit” which then dominates Rome. From this centre, this keen interest for these saints, pictured as members of God’s court, conquers Spain. Martyrdom is combined with the notion of patronage, first for specific churches at local and regional levels, but also in the representation of the power of royal family women. Royalty then forces its way as a new hagiographic criteria for profane feminine sanctity. These phenomenons are apparent in the theatrical, poetical and pictorial portrayal of Virgins and martyrs : their sanctity is shaped in images and the story of their vita portrayed
Ertlé, Antoine. "A game at chess de thomas middleton (1624) : edition critique avec introduction, traduction et notes." Paris 3, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA030011.
Full textKaroui, Abdeljelil. "La dramaturgie de Voltaire." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989CLF20024.
Full textThe first part of this work aimed at studying the dramatic technique of voltaire in relation to the 17th century. The second part illustrates his techniques through three representative plays. In the third part we have concentrated on his dramatic technique as it is related to the most intimate and more or less conscious part in him, and on the philosopher's will to preach his "thruths" and his determined struggle against "infamy". Thes study shows that voltaire's will to reform the classical theatre was not very strong. However, in his time, he was considered as the first dramatist of the 18th century. Nowadays unsatisfactory opinions on voltaire as a dramatist, endlessly repeated and curtly spread, still remain. This unfair judgement should be revised
Peyré, Yves. "La mythologie dans la tragédie élisabéthaine." Paris 4, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA040013.
Full textThe analysis of mythological expression in Elizabethan tragedy rests on a study of the functions and conceptions of mythology in the culture of the English Renaissance. A diversity of mythographic approaches led to multiple, simultaneous readings of each myth, while inviting reflection on the problems of interpretation. At the same time, mythology contributed to literary and religious controversies. The emergence of a fashion for mythical elaboration centred on the sovereign paralleled that of scientific scepticism. Tragedy, which explores the magnifying and belittling potentialities of mythological rhetoric, and sets in play symbolic structures that progress from allegory to irony, raises questions about the nature and role of signs. Mythology, a language of stimulating syntheses also expressive of deep fractures, is used to create dramatic tension or ironic effects of anamorphosis in which it may be possible to apprehend what the Elizabethan mind viewed as tragic, that is to say, whatever undermined the combined ideals of renovatio and integratio. Finally, in exploring the expressive potentialities of mythology, the Elizabethans may have arrived at an intuitive inkling of what would become the concept of myth, as related to tragedy
Turrettes, Cécile. "Survivance et métamorphose des descendants d'Agamemnon dans le théatre français du XXe siècle." Toulouse 2, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998TOU20004.
Full textElectra, Orestes and Iphigenia have gone through the ages and inspired a good many writers of the twentieth century. Therefore the first object of this thesis will be to try and understand why contemporary playwrights keep studying the myths of Electra and Iphigenia and how those legends are made perennial. Secondly it will deal with the way creators depict those protagonists descended from ancient times. And ultimately it will consider the distinctive features of the tragedy born of those characters - which are at the same time faithful to their Greek models and different from their predecessors. It is a tragedy that modern authors have "acclimatized" by enhancing the part of pathos and nonsense, two tonalities that give their plays an original resonance and counterbalance the tragic elements
Nicolas, Marielle. "Les "comedias" d'Agustín Moreto : l'illusion maîtrisée au service d'une vérité." Pau, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PAUU1005.
Full textBased on 25 plays written by Moreto, a Spanish playwright of the XVIIth century, this study of texts sets up the creation of illusion mechanisms. Space, both scenic and dramatic, constitutes the first element in this construction, but illusion also lays between appearances and reality. The notion of power, connected with masks and lies, raises as the third main axis in the considered plays. Moreto envisages lying not like a nasty intention to fool other people but, on the contrary, like a way to have access to the truth. Such a viewpoint comes out to an ironic distance with the dramatic plays and to the consciousness of the playwriting mechanisms. Lastly, the dramatist is the one who "desengaña engañando", and though he reveals many kinds of manipulations, he gives a special signification to his plays in order to defend his king Philip IV from critics and conspiracies
Ramat, Christine. "La comédie du verbe : le comique et le sacré dans l'œuvre de Valère Novarina." Grenoble 3, 2007. http://accesdistant.bu.univ-paris8.fr:2048/login?url=https://www.dawsonera.com/abstract/9782296228832.
Full textThe work of Valère Novarina is an astonishing, anxious and funny enigmatic literary object. It favours the stage but develops a dramatic art of the excess which cultivates the nonsense, the improper, the incongruity and the absurd. The philosophy makes the metaphysical questions on airs of operetta circulate, the theology turns into derisory gossips. Conversely, the author revives the theological frames of the biblical Word to place the stakes of his theater at the crossroads of the reality and the spiritual, of the human and the inhuman. Of this oscillation is born a grotesque comic, which does not hesitate to recycle the old carnival receipts to propose what the author names a cure of idiocy, which is skilfully insignificant and funny. But this strange gaiety must not deceive. Iconoclastic, the novarinian comedy reinvests what Bataille named the "sacré impur", so as to reconquer the mystery of speech ruined by the technical words of the media. For the novarinian comedy is neither godless, nor non-believer. Far from joining the destructive vein of the modern mockery, it develops inversely an inspired comic, which reconciles, in a singular way, the atheist and the mystic, the Fathers of the Church and the pataphysicians to excite, in negative, the poetic power of the Word. Rooted on M. Bakhtine and W. Kayser theories of grotesque, this thesis has the purpose to study the paradoxical relation which links the laughter and the sacred, the incongruity and the mystic, the meaning and the nonsense, the writing and the Word, through the farcical disguise of the biblical text and the work of the theatrical forms of the comic tradition : circus, operetta, music hall, puppets
Eldib, Elnemer Milad. "La mort dans le théâtre de Beckett et Ionesco." Paris 10, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA100073.
Full textThis thesis might be presented as an attempt of parallelism between the theme of the death in Beckett and Ionesco's theatre and its intellectual, philosophical, psychological interpretations. This parallelism follows a method based on a close reading of the texts, constantly supported by biographical elements or psychological research and all kinds of influences: Zenon d'Elée's paradoxal arguments, Heraclites' theory of duration, Schopenhauer's pessimism and ethic, Dante's Hell etc. In Beckett's theatre, and Tibetan Book of the Souls in Ionesco's one, who devotes death to life. The question of death is studied in its whole extensiveness through two main ideas: contraction process in Beckett's theatre and proliferation phenomenon in Ionesco's. Thus, this work shows how Beckett describes the agony of his crippled and infirm characters who are disposed to suicide and are prisoners of a lethargic sleep, using an irrational language, living in an absurd world where God is absent. Thus thesis also describes how Ionesco features the anguish of death through proliferation which announces the end of mankind
Ben, Amor Zied. "La représentation de l'oriental et de l'africain à l'époque shakespearienne." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001CLF20008.
Full textKamyabi, Mask Ahmad. "Contribution à l'étude de la mise en scène de l'attente dans le théâtre de Beckett et de Ionesco." Montpellier 3, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999MON30030.
Full textFournial, Céline. "Imitation et création dans le" théâtre moderne" (1550-1650) : la question des cycles d’inspiration." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019SORUL012.
Full textIn the second half of the sixteenth century, modern French drama is developed from humanist reflection upon both past literature and the theory of imitation, considered a universal writing method by period scholars. In the first half of the 17th century, especially from the 1620s on, the evolving terms and stakes of such reflection produce numerous debates about drama, a genre then full of dramatic experimentation and renovation. Under these circumstances, the choice of inspiration is not insignificant. The dramatists not only look for subjects, but also for novel literary forms from foreign writers that could feed practice as much as theory. Studying one century of dramatic creations enables us to outline several cycles of inspiration within the history of tragicomedy, tragedy and comedy, and to record how these cycles match the main stages of evolution of those three genres. Throughout, Inventio and dramaturgy maintain close relations with each other. At a time when the central and most debated question is one of models, analyzing these cycles highlights the meaning and consequences of the use of adaptation and rewriting, and the choice of ancient, Italian, Spanish or French inspirations. The concept of cycles enables the comprehension of the sources of inspiration as periodical phenomenon and to show how drama uniquely evolves through imitation. In conclusion, studying the cyclic relation between the French playwrights and their ancient and modern inspirations leads to the examination of Modern French drama’s European nature and the circulation and transference of subjects and literary forms
Drouet, Pascale. ""Counterfeiting" : le vagabond et sa mise en scène dans l'Angleterre élisabéthaine et jacobéenne." Paris 4, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA040108.
Full textIn the reign of Elisabeth I, the laws against vagabonds grow in number and advocate harsher punishment such as public whipping and infamy, red hot branding. . . : an extensive punitive system is being implemented to castigate vagrants in a conspicuous way before excluding them from society. .
Weill-Engerer, Christèle. "La folie : reflet d'une esthétique baroque dans le théâtre de Shakespeare, Calderón et Corneille : étude linguistique, stylistique et littéraire." Paris 4, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA040193.
Full textThe purpose of this study was to compare three authors writing in different idioms, all three belonging to the XVIIth century: Shakespeare, Calderon and Corneille. We tried to show that their theatrical works offer the features of a baroque aesthetics, refusing consequently the image of a classical Corneille. We choosed one of the aspects which represents the best the baroque in the theater: madness. The theme of madness leaded us to examine, in a linguistical, stylistical and literary point of view, some characteristics common or divergent between this English, Spanish and French theater. First, we began to point out in these three authors that some characters were having an unbounded desire of power and domination, representing on stage what we called "a Prometheus challenge". From this point, we established that the linguistical and stylistical expression of madness was not necessarily appearing with an hyperbolical language but, paradoxically, with a rational language. We studied then the madness of love, and more particularly jealousy, which symbolizes a DionysiaC baroque, producing, in the tragedy or the comedy, the violence of passion. Finally, we saw that madness could present clinical and pathological signs and symbolize therefore a spiritual, somatical and macrocosmical disorder, described with precision by the three authors. In conclusion, this work shows that the topic of madness perfectly reflects a theatrical baroque with different faces in the works of Shakespeare, Calderon and Corneille
Ruiz, Soto Héctor. "Apariencia ou l’instant du dévoilement : théâtre et rituels dans l’Espagne du Siècle d’or." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Sorbonne université, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019SORUL161.
Full textThe apariencia, a typically Iberian special effect, is defined in 1611 as ‘a mute representation shown by drawing a curtain in front of people, and immediately hiding it again’ (Covarrubias, Tesoro lexicográfico). In other words, it is a performance of unveiling, used mostly in theatre, but also in liturgy – where it displays relics and sacred images – and in royal ceremonies – both in public pageant and inside the royal chapel. Apariencia also innervates private collections of paintings, where some masterpieces or cultural images are shown by pulling a curtain and closing it soon thereafter. A topic coming from the Naturalis Historia by Pliny the Elder gives a model of interpretation: the victory of Parrhasios against Apelles is the result of the illusionism of a painted curtain, that everyone would want to unveil. In his definitions of apariencia and cortina (curtain), Covarrubias describes this visual device, and he mentions spectacular unveilings both in theatre and in the royal chapel. He also reveals that the common language associates the unveiling with something that produces wonder. The theatrical apariencias, which sometimes imitate ritual, also open to the fields of painting, royal ritual and liturgy. Therefore, a concept emerges : the apariencia becomes a visual effect used to unveil something striking for a few moments, in the fields of theatre, painting, royal ritual and liturgy. This PhD dissertation deals with these spheres, and it combines history of the theatre and cultural history in order to understand the emotional and symbolic connotations of this act of unveiling in the early modern Iberian peninsula
Pennanguer, Anne. "Le discours moralisateur dans l'oeuvre théâtrale de Tirso de Molina." Rennes 2, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001REN20010.
Full textThe playwright Tirso de Molina, the pen-name of Fray Tellez, a member of the order of Merci, produced a body of work which faithfully reflects the society of his time. In his many plays the audience could actually see their own behaviour. Man is weak and surrounded by temptations : whether they are rich or poor, commoners or nobles, princes or bishops, all eventually yield. . Tirso was a subtle observer of Spain's rigid class system and a society influenced by the ideas and practises of the Counter Reformation. Through this sacred and profane theatre he presents the contradictions and hesitations of seventeenth century Spaniards who feared divine punishment and the sufferings of eternal damnation but still lusted after pleasure and power. However let us not be mistaken. Tirso is not a spiritual adviser to speak : he records facts and situations and offers solutions but it is up to his audience to refuse or accept them. Rather than a sermon the "Comedia" is above all a eulogy to the theatre. Tirso liked to write and even censorship did not stop him from continuing his work
Savatier-Lahondès, Céline. "Transtextuality, (Re)sources and Transmission of the Celtic Culture Trough the Shakespearean Repertory." Thesis, Université Clermont Auvergne (2017-2020), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019CLFAL012/document.
Full textThis dissertation explores the resurgence of motifs related to Celtic cultures in Shakespeare’s plays, that is to say the way the pre-Christian and pre-Roman cultures of the British Isles permeate the dramatic works of William Shakespeare. Such motifs do not always evidently appear on the surface of the text. They sometimes do, but most often, they require a thorough in depth exploration. This issue has thus far remained relatively unexplored; in this sense we can talk of a ‘construction’ of meaning. However, the cultures in question belong to an Ancient time, therefore, we may accept the idea of a ‘reconstruction’ of a forgotten past. Providing a rigorous definition of the term ‘Celtic’ this study offers to examine in detail the presence of motifs, first in the Chronicles that Shakespeare could have access to, and takes into account the notions of orality and discourse, inherent to the study of a primarily oral culture. The figure of King Arthur and the matter of Britain, seen as the entrance doors to the subject, are studied in relation to the plays, and in the Histories, the analysis of characters from the ‘margins’, i.e. Wales, Ireland and Scotland provides an Early Modern vision of ‘borderers’. Only two plays from the Shakespearean corpus are set in a Celtic historical context – Cymbeline and King Lear – but motifs surge in numerous other works, such as Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale and others. This research reveals a substrate that produces a new enriching reading of the plays
Sayadi, Abderrazak. "La rhétorique dans la tragédie humaniste de la pléiade." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993CLF20050.
Full textFROM 1552 TO 1561 THERE WAS IN FRANCE A VERY IMPORTANT DRAMATIC ACTIVITY. THE MEMBERS OF LA PLEIADE UNITED AROUND JODELLE GIVE TO FRANCE SOME TRAGEDIES WHICH ARE INSPIRATED FROM THE ANCIENT MODELS GREEK AND LATINS AND WHICH ARE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FORM MEDIEVAL THEATRE. HOW CAN WE TODAY EXPLAIN THE APPARITION OF THESE TRAGEDIES AT THIS PERIOD? RHETORIC WHO WAS REHABILITED AT THE RENAISSANCE CENTURY CAN ALLOWS US TO EXPLAIN SOME ASPECTS OF THIS THEATER. THE THREE IMPORTANT PARTS OF RHETORIC TECHNIC INVENTIO, DISPOSITIO, AND ELOCUTIO ORGANISE INDEED TRAGEDIES OF PLEIADE. THE FIRST PART EXPLAIN THE BEGIN OF INSPIRATION WHEN THE DRAMATURGE DISCOVER HIS SUBJECT. THE SECOND GIVES STRUCTURE TO THE ACTION AND DISPOSES MATTER TO PLEASE THE PUBLIC AND MAKE HIM ATTENTIF FROM THE BEGINING UNTIL THE END. THE THIRD PART EXPRESSES WITh ACCENT EMOTIONS, ACTION AND TRAGIC END. SO THE THEATER OF PLEIADE HAS BEEN CREATED WITH THE HELP OF RHETORIC TECHNIC BUT IT STAYS ALWAYS PREOCCUPATED BY THE PRINCIPAL AIM OF THE THEATER : PLEASE THE PUBLIC
Musso, Daniela. "Réminiscences mythiques dans les Miracles de Nostre Dame par personnages : Ia mise en scène dun imaginaire chrétien du XIVe siècle." Phd thesis, Université de Grenoble, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01063181.
Full textAnthonioz, Anne-Marie. "Houdar de La Motte : auteur tragique." Paris 4, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986PA040039.
Full textHoudar de La Motte is a well-known poet in the french literature by fables, odes and the translation of the Iliade that boosted up again "la querelle des Anciens et des modernes" in the years 1714-1715. He is less known as a tragic dramatist, nevertheless, he wrote four tragedies which were successsfull : les Macchabées (1721), Romulus (1722), Ines de Castro (1723) and Oedipe (1726). We have drawn a portrait of la Motte, pointing out the most important steps of his life, his carreer and his work. In parallel of his tragedies, he wrote some "discours" in which he formed new theories about dramatic art and he proposed, in the same way, some important reforms as writing a new tragedy in prose form. We have studied the arrangement of the tragedies, their sources, the different classes of characters and the political, moral or sentimental and religious themes. All theses themes, as we know, have given the touch of brightness and interest to the dramatic art of this century, a study of the poet's style completes this work. Our point was to promote this author unfairly forgotten, using a new sensibility and more pathetism, Houdar de La Motte gave the new way to the tragedy and by this fact he may be recognized as a forerunner of the romanticists
Andrivet, Patrick. "Représentations politiques de l'ancienne Rome en France des débuts de l'âge classique à la révolution." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994CLF20057.
Full textIn the france of the 17th and the 18th century some prominent writers like corneille, bossuet, montesquieu and rousseau, simple essayists like saint-evremond, and revolutionaries like marat and robespierre did not adhere to the admiration of ancient rome that had become traditional in europe since the renaissance. The author makes this point by a detailed study of the works of these writers who, in spite of texts written with certain precautions of style, denounce the excessive cult of rome of modern europeans, its aspiration to universal domination, its institutions and the corruption which takes over after several centuries of existence. These studies are accompanied by analyses which link these critical opinions of rome to the political views which are implicit or explicit in each work. Views which are implicit or explicit in each work
Leroy, Séverine. "L'oeuvre théâtrale de Didier-Georges Gabily : poétique d'une mémoire en pièces." Thesis, Rennes 2, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015REN20007/document.
Full textThis thesis covers the work of French writer and stage director Didier-Georges Gabily (1955-1996), his published and unpublished texts as well as production archives and interviews with his actors and collaborators. The perspective is that of a poetics of memory, a disenchanted vision of contemporary society that transpires out of the confrontation of the past with the present, resulting in the deconstruction of myths in contemporary dramatic space, be they myths bequeathed by former directors/actors or political myths such as communism; in either case, these two angles open a perspective onto a community in the making. The analysis is based on an observation of the impact of memory upon both dramatic structure and speech/dialogue patterns, as a recurrent dramaturgical structure resting on a former catastrophe is what the characters are constantly – and helplessly – trying to piece back together. As a result, action is replaced by narrative, which results in aseries of monologues, a “romanization” of drama (Sarrazac). The approach is based on aesthetic criteria together with the analysis of the dynamics of history in the work (both as a series of topoï and as a structuring pattern) to offer a reading of the work that reveals the complex interplay of time and performance in the author’s quest. The influence of the concreteness of the stage on Gabily’s writing is analysed in the last section of this research and reveals a process of perpetual hybridization, manifesting the importance of the actors’ bodies and the materiality of the stage in his writing. The analysis of the different threads in the fabric of literary and artistic heritage in Gabily’s work for the stage reveals the emergence of an aesthetics ofresistance going against the overall violence prevailing in liberal society
Atem, Carole. "Les mémoires apocryphes de Courtilz de Sandras : émergence et triomphe d'une forme romanesque à l'âge classique (1687-1758)." Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030140.
Full textWhether they highlight a historical figure or a fictional character, the Memoirs of Courtilz de Sandras, published between 1687 and 1758, mark the emergence of a type of fiction based upon the pretence of memorialist writing. These novelistic works assume the form of memoirs whose fictitious authors are individuals from the reign of Louis XIII or well-known contemporaries of Courtilz. Far from misleading the readers, the fictional origin of these narratives, which justifies their being called apocryphal, did not prevent the literary critics of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries from detecting behind the purported authors an anonymous novelist. Between illusion and truth, these so-called memoirs written in the first person, mixing biographical veracity, historical accuracy and fictional invention, urge to redefine the notions of authenticity and fiction, in the light of the tacit pact between the writer and the reader, united in a common awareness of pretence. Studying the complex relationship that these novels share with authentic memoirs and history permits to situate them in the evolution of the works of fiction in the French classical age. The fiction of memorialist writing allows the mixing of the voices, which reveals the plurality of the discourses used by Courtilz: to the voice of the fictitious memorialist, the voice of the novelist is superimposed if not opposed. Through the narrative, the novelist implicitly expresses a satirical speech about the world, irrelevant with the one of the characters. A real instrument of controversy, the interweaving of the two discourses partakes of a pessimistic fictional world which emphasizes the existential failure of the heroes