Thèse (M.A)--Université Laval, 2007. / Bibliogr.: f. [88]-92. Publié aussi en version électronique dans la Collection Mémoires et thèses électroniques.

[pt] Esta tese aborda o território de uma arte épica na filosofia de Walter Benjamin e no teatro de Bertolt Brecht. O épico é visto aqui em um contexto de politização da arte do século XX, que atingiria uma de suas expressões mais significativas e experimentais no teatro de Brecht. Benjamin irá figurar não só como um importante leitor de Brecht, mas como um pensador do épico. Suas leituras da década de 1930 sobre uma arte política e sobre o narrador terão um papel importante. O narrador será pensado como narrador de situações políticas, e em conexão com um teatro que, como apontou Brecht, adquire novas possibilidades de narrar. Trataremos também das concepções de um teatro épico, ou proletário, do encenador Erwin Piscator, e das leituras do escritor e crítico Alfred Doblin sobre uma obra épica. / [en] This thesis focus on the territory of an epic art in the philosophy of Walter Benjamin and in the theater of Bertolt Brecht. The epic is seen here in the context of politicization of twentieth-century art, which would achieve one of its most significant and experimental expressions in the Brecht theater. Benjamin will figure not only as an important reader of Brecht, but as a thinker of the epic. His readings of the 1930s on political art and on the narrator will have an important role. The narrator will be thought of as a narrator of political situations, and in connection with a theater which, as Brecht pointed out, acquires new possibilities to narrate. We will also deal with the conceptions of an epic theater, or proletarian, of the director Erwin Piscator, and the readings of the writer and critic Alfred Doblin on an epic work.

Contemporains capitaux, mythifiés de leur vivant, Artaud et Brecht sont morts en ignorant tout l’un de l’autre. Ce tandem imaginaire s’est néanmoins vu érigé en grand antagonisme de l’avant-garde. Au dualisme théâtral Cruauté vs Distanciation se sont superposées les confrontations esthétiques (performance vs brechtisme), politiques (situationnistes vs staliniens), idéologiques (transgression libertaire vs totalisation marxiste), philosophiques (critique postmoderne vs rationalisme occidental).Par-delà cette réduction instrumentale à deux machines de guerre théoriques adverses, un enjeu essentiel unit pourtant Brecht et Artaud : comment changer le monde ou la vie ? De cette Révolution infinie dont le théâtre n’est qu’un aspect, cette thèse explore les sens par la comparaison de leurs œuvres complètes en croisant littérature, philosophie et politique. Au-delà d’options divergentes, Artaud et Brecht partagent des problèmes, des rejets, des axes. I. Mythologies. Artaud et Brecht traquent la Révolution en brûlant ses mythes : embraser la terre (destruction, dégénérescence, décadence) ; changer la vie (paganisme, anarchismes, avant-gardes) ; transformer le monde (marxisme, indianisme). II. Pathologies. Pour éradiquer la contre-Révolution et canaliser la flambée des masses, ils attaquent la diversion religieuse, l’abrutissement par l’emprise (sexuelle, occulte, idéologique), et la domination (de l’inertie à la fureur fasciste). III. Philosophies & Dramaturgies. Dans le creuset du théâtre, sur deux scènes ontologiques, Brecht et Artaud forgent leurs Révolutions comme saut, dépassement, renversement et commencement. De leur géniale traversée, reste le brasier révolutionnaire de l’œuvre. / Artaud and Brecht, contemporaries transformed into mythological figures during their own life-times, died without having any knowledge of one another. They became, however, an imaginary couple, as it were, the two great antagonists of the avant-garde. The duality they represented —theatre of cruelty vs. theatre of alienation— acquired further meanings: aesthetic (performance vs. brechtian), political (situationist vs. stalinist), ideological (libertarian transgression vs. Marxist totalisation), and philosophic (post-modernist critique vs. western rationalism).Nevertheless, beyond the polemics, one essential concern united Brecht and Artaud: How to change the world and life? This thesis explores the meanings of that infinite revolution of which the theatre is but one aspect, by comparing their oeuvre as literature, philosophy, and politics. Their positions differed, but Artaud and Brecht shared the same problems and terms of discussion, and rejected the same solutions.I. Mythologies: Both of them pursued revolution while attacking its myths: setting the world alight (destruction, degeneracy, decadence); changing life (paganism, anarchism, the avant-gardes), transforming everything (Marxism, indianism).II. Pathologies: in order to resist Counter-Revolution and focus the ardour of the masses, they attack religion as a diversion; sexual, occult and ideological brutalisation; and all forms of domination (from passivity to fascist frenzy).III. Philosophies and dramaturgies: It is in the theatre that Artaud and Brecht forged their revolutions in the form of great leaps forward, reversals and new beginnings.What remains of their work is its incandescent revolutionary core.

Thesis advisor: Scott T. Cummings / This Senior Honors Thesis evolved from a personal fascination with the intersection of art and science both in drama and on a grander theoretical scale. It is a three-part investigation with each part written in different voice with a different intention. The first is a short personal introduction offering insight to the genesis of the project. This is followed by a comparative dramaturgical analysis of two science plays, Bertolt Brecht's GALILEO and Michael Frayn's COPENHAGEN, examining the role of science in drama. The final component is a philosophical dialogue on the model of Brecht's MESSINGKAUF DIALOGUES which articulates larger philosophical questions in an examination of the similarities and differences between science and art. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2006. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Theater. / Discipline: College Honors Program.

Berlin, Freie University, Diss., 2006 (Nicht für den Austausch).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1973. / Typescript. Vita. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Bielefeld, Universiẗat, Diss., 2002.

Diss.--Fribourg-en-Brisgau, 1999. / Bibliogr. p. 215-226.

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This study presents an examination of the theory of alienation which is found in the dramatic work of Bertolt Brecht, the German writer and producer. A historical survey is followed by an attempt to describe the presence of the same phenomenon in the text of two plays by Brecht, Mutter Courage and Der kaukasiche Kreiderkreis. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)