Orientador: Alcides Cardoso dos Santos / Banca: Iná Camargo Costa / Banca: Maria Clara Bonetti Paro / Resumo: A obra de arte dramática, diferentemente de outras formas artístico-literárias, é a que de forma mais prática e imediata estabelece uma relação entre seu realizador e o público ao qual ela é destinada. Contudo, o drama moderno, produzido a partir do final do século XIX, passou por uma série de crises e adaptações quanto à forma e ao conteúdo, decorrentes de várias mudanças ocorridas nos mais diversos setores da sociedade. Edward Albee é um dos maiores dramaturgos norte-americanos da segunda metade do séc. XX. Seguindo uma tradição que produziria grandes talentos como Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams e Arthur Miller, o novo autor surge em 1958 com seu texto, The Zoo Story, associado ao Teatro do Absurdo. A peça de forma minimalista põe em cena dois bancos de praça e duas personagens: Peter que é a própria personificação do self made man, já que está enjaulado aos ideais e aos valores burgueses de vida, e Jerry o outsider ou o transeunte permanente que não se insere nos padrões, no código moral e de valores socialmente estabelecidos. Entretanto, ou por isso mesmo, possui uma capacidade reflexiva extremamente aguçada. O objetivo é tratar de um aspecto da peça - a questão da absurvidade e da liberdade, como formas de transcender a angústia existencial e a vida sem significado em um contexto destituído de símbolos metafísicos. Analisar-se-ão os elementos relacionados a estes tópicos bem como o modo que servem de instrumento para o esvaziamento da ideologia burguesa, que culmina na crítica ácida que Edward Albee desfere ao American way of life. / Abstract: Dramatic art, differently from other literacy-artistic forms, is the one that most practically and immediately establishes a relationship between its producer and the audience it is created for. However, modern drama, produced since the end of nineteenth century, has gone through many crises and adaptations in its form and content, originated from many changes occured in the various instances of society. Edward Albee is one of the major American playwrights of the second half of the twentieth century. Following a tradition which produced gifted authors such as Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, the new author appears with his play The Zoo Story in 1958, associated to the Theater of the Absurd. The play, in a minimalist way, stages two park benches and two characters: Peter, the personification of the self made man, encaged in the bourgeois ideals and values of life; and Jerry, the outsider or the permanent transient who does not fill in the patterns, in the moral code or the established social values. However, or because of this, he has a sharpened reflexive ability. The aim of our search is to treat one aspect of the play - absurdity and freedom - a means of transceding existential anguish and life without meaning in a context deprived of metaphysical symbols. We intend to analyze elements related to these topics, as well as the way they function as instruments for the emptying bourgeois ideology which, ends up the sour criticism Albee aims at the American way of life. / Mestre

[pt] Estudos a respeito dos efeitos de coortes sobre preferências por diversos produtos culturais levantaram evidências da existência de um período de maior sensibilidade na vida dos consumidores, no qual desenvolvem-se gostos levados por toda a vida. Estas conclusões oferecem a alternativa da segmentação por coortes, fornecem mais informações sobre comportamento dos consumidores, auxiliam na previsão de demandas e direcionam ações de marketing. No contexto brasileiro, nenhum produto cultural tem a abrangência, presença e relevância que os ídolos teledramatúrgicos têm sobre a população em geral. Num país com diferenças sócio-econômicas abissais entre classes, o veículo de distribuição cultural mais forte e democrático, por estar presente em todos os extratos sociais, é a televisão, que por sua vez tem como seu principal produto as novelas. Nada é mais popular na tv brasileira do que a teledramaturgia. O papel que esta desempenha através de seus artistas na vida social dos consumidores brasileiros é inegável, por invadirem consensualmente milhares de lares diariamente, os ídolos teledramatúrgicos possuem enorme apelo sobre seu público. Fato comprovado pelo grande número de endosso publicitário que realizam. Desta forma, esta pesquisa apresenta uma investigação empírica, onde homens e mulheres expressam suas preferências por ídolos masculinos e femininos da teledramaturgia brasileira, a fim de verificar se efeitos de coortes afetam tais preferências. Com isso, não só contribui-se para ampliar o escopo dos trabalhos já realizados nesta área, como também, através das conclusões apresentadas corroborando a teoria, pode-se fornecer subsídios aos profissionais de marketing para aumentar a eficácia de seus estímulos publicitários. / [en] Studies about cohort effects on the preferences of many cultural products reveled evidences for the existence of more sensitive period on the consumer s life, when tastes are developed and carried for the whole life. These conclusions show the alternative of cohort segmentation, give more information about consumer behavior, help in forecast demands and guide marketing actions. In brazilian context, there isn t cultural product with the same size, presence and relevance that idols of tv dramatic art on the general population. In a country with huge social-economical differences between classes, the distribution cultural vehicle stronger and more democratical, because there are in every social class, is the television, which has like its principal product the soap operas. Nothing is more popular on the brazilian TV then dramatic art. The role that it plays through its artists on the social life of brazilian consumers is undeniable, by invade with permition million of houses every day the TV dramatic art idols have enormous appeal on their target. It can be proved by the big number of publicity indorsement they realize. So, this research shows an empirical investigation, in which men and woman express their preferences for male and female idols of brazilian TV dramatic art, to verify if cohort effects affects these preferences. In this way, not only contributes to enlarger the scopes of works already did in this area but too through the conclusions presented, which corroborate the theory, can give subsidies for marketing professionals to increase the efficacy of publicity stimulus.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:25:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2006-04-26Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:26:25Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 leite_al_me_arafcl.pdf: 864986 bytes, checksum: 0067c970ef9b685707a6e900dd9a6ce9 (MD5) / A obra de arte dramática, diferentemente de outras formas artístico-literárias, é a que de forma mais prática e imediata estabelece uma relação entre seu realizador e o público ao qual ela é destinada. Contudo, o drama moderno, produzido a partir do final do século XIX, passou por uma série de crises e adaptações quanto à forma e ao conteúdo, decorrentes de várias mudanças ocorridas nos mais diversos setores da sociedade. Edward Albee é um dos maiores dramaturgos norte-americanos da segunda metade do séc. XX. Seguindo uma tradição que produziria grandes talentos como Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams e Arthur Miller, o novo autor surge em 1958 com seu texto, The Zoo Story, associado ao Teatro do Absurdo. A peça de forma minimalista põe em cena dois bancos de praça e duas personagens: Peter que é a própria personificação do self made man, já que está enjaulado aos ideais e aos valores burgueses de vida, e Jerry o outsider ou o transeunte permanente que não se insere nos padrões, no código moral e de valores socialmente estabelecidos. Entretanto, ou por isso mesmo, possui uma capacidade reflexiva extremamente aguçada. O objetivo é tratar de um aspecto da peça - a questão da absurvidade e da liberdade, como formas de transcender a angústia existencial e a vida sem significado em um contexto destituído de símbolos metafísicos. Analisar-se-ão os elementos relacionados a estes tópicos bem como o modo que servem de instrumento para o esvaziamento da ideologia burguesa, que culmina na crítica ácida que Edward Albee desfere ao American way of life. / Dramatic art, differently from other literacy-artistic forms, is the one that most practically and immediately establishes a relationship between its producer and the audience it is created for. However, modern drama, produced since the end of nineteenth century, has gone through many crises and adaptations in its form and content, originated from many changes occured in the various instances of society. Edward Albee is one of the major American playwrights of the second half of the twentieth century. Following a tradition which produced gifted authors such as Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, the new author appears with his play The Zoo Story in 1958, associated to the Theater of the Absurd. The play, in a minimalist way, stages two park benches and two characters: Peter, the personification of the self made man, encaged in the bourgeois ideals and values of life; and Jerry, the outsider or the permanent transient who does not fill in the patterns, in the moral code or the established social values. However, or because of this, he has a sharpened reflexive ability. The aim of our search is to treat one aspect of the play - absurdity and freedom - a means of transceding existential anguish and life without meaning in a context deprived of metaphysical symbols. We intend to analyze elements related to these topics, as well as the way they function as instruments for the emptying bourgeois ideology which, ends up the sour criticism Albee aims at the American way of life.

Orientador: Eliana Ayoub / Acompanha anexo em DVD: Emile-Dalcroze: Memorias em musica / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-12T11:58:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Madureira_JoseRafael_D.pdf: 2098968 bytes, checksum: 68591f45cb20280e08dd75fd10cec532 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Resumo: Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950), compositor austro-suíço, é o protagonista deste estudo. Suas andanças foram muitas assim como os temas de suas investigações. Este é um trabalho inédito de tradução e discussão de parte substancial da obra teórica de Jaques-Dalcroze, bem como um apontamento sobre as interfaces de seu sistema de educação musical - denominado Rítmica (Rythmique) - com o devir da modernidade na dança do século XX, na Europa como nos Estados Unidos, e com os sistemas ginásticos alemães que estiveram tão perigosamente ligados ao totalitarismo europeu novecentista. Este trabalho foi organizado em 9 fragmentos que narram as incursões de Jaques-Dalcroze pelo universo da música, do teatro, da dança e da ginástica. Os fragmentos - aqui intitulados QUADROS - encontram-se inacabados e, justamente por essa razão, guardam uma grande potência germinativa que poderá inspirar outras pesquisas acerca da temática corpo-ritmo-movimento-expressão. Os 9 QUADROS são precedidos de um PRÓLOGO e estão organizados nos seguintes temas: 1. Panorama biográfico de Émile Jaques-Dalcroze; 2. Origens e princípios do sistema de educação musical denominado Rítmica; 3. A influência das teorias da expressão de François Delsarte (1811-1871) na concepção da Rítmica; 4. A amizade com o cenógrafo Adolphe Appia (1812-1928) e a relação da Rítmica com o conceito de "obra de arte viva"; 5. A experiência do Instituto Jaques-Dalcroze de Hellerau (1911-1914), situado nos arredores de Dresden (Alemanha); 6. O brutal fechamento do Instituto alemão devido à eclosão da 1ª Guerra Mundial; 7. A relação de Jaques-Dalcroze e de sua obra com o devir da dança do século XX; 8. A relação da Rítmica com a ginástica moderna especialmente a partir da figura do ex-aluno Rudolf Bode (1881-1971); 9. A permanência da Rítmica na dança contemporânea francesa a partir do trabalho de Françoise Dupuy. Ao final do texto teórico encontra-se disponível um material complementar de consulta organizado em 3 APÊNDICES: A. Cronologia da vida e das publicações teóricas de Jaques-Dalcroze; B. Dicionário sobre as personalidades citadas ao longo do texto; C. Alguns aforismos esparsos de Émile Jaques-Dalcroze. Em anexo, encontra-se disponível o DVD "Émile Jaques-Dalcroze: Memórias em Música" (18 min.), no qual pode-se ouvir trechos das obras musicais engendradas por Dalcroze enquanto o olhar acompanha algumas imagens de suas andanças pelo mundo afora. / Abstract: This work presents the concepts and practices of Eurhythmics (Rythmique) as conceived by the Swiss composer Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950). It discusses the relation of Eurhythmics with modern dance and gymnastics in Europe and in the U.S. It also stablishes a comparison between the poetic experience of Eurhythmics and the German employ of rhythm and expression gymnastics in the european totalitarism. This thesis is composed by 9 PICTURES which describe Dalcroze's exploration of the universe of dramatic arts (music, dance and theather) and gymnastics. These pictures are unfinished, and for this reason they may offer their potency to inspire future researches on the theme body-rhythmmovement- expression. The 9 pictures are preceded by a PROLOGUE and present the following approaches: 1. A biographical essay about Émile Jaques-Dalcroze; 2. A synthesis about Dalcroze's system of musical education named Eurhythmics; 3. The influences of the theories of expression by François Delsarte (1811-1871) on the creation of Eurhythmics; 4. The friendship with the cenographer Adolphe Appia (1862-1928) and the relation between Eurhythmics and the Appia's concept of "living work of art"; 5. The experience of the 1st Dalcroze's Eurhythmics Institute created at the garden-city of Hellerau (Germany); 6. The interruption of Hellerau's school activities caused by the begining of the World War I; 7. The relation between Dalcroze's Eurhythmics and the conception of Modern Dance in Eupore and in the U.S.; 8. The relation between Eurhythmics and the germany gymnastics - a special approach with the Expression-gymnastics created by Dalcroze's pupil Rudolf Bode (1881-1971); 9. The permanence of Eurhythmics at french contemporary dance with Françoise Dupuy. Annexed there is a video named "Émile Jaques-Dalcroze: Memory into Music", where it's possible to hear Dalcroze's own compositions and see some images about his personal life and work. / Doutorado / Educação, Conhecimento, Linguagem e Arte / Doutor em Educação

Cette thèse a pour objectif de mettre en évidence et d'analyser les thématiques pirandelliennes dans le théâtre de Jean Genet. Á cet effet, elle propose une redéfinition du pirandellisme, qui était sujet à de nombreuses controverses depuis sa première définition d'inspiration philosophique par le critique italien Adriano Tilgher en 1923. La nouvelle définition du pirandellisme proposée ici est construite à partir de cinq caractéristiques principales: le dualisme entre la vie et la forme, l'humorisme pirandellien, la suprématie de l'œuvre d'art sur la vie, l'impossibilité d'être un soi unifié et la métathéâtralité. Cette nouvelle modélisation dramaturgique du pirandellisme sert à analyser les pièces métathéâtrales de Pirandello et l'ensemble du théâtre de Genet dans le but d'appréhender l'historicité des textes, leur ancrage - et parfois absence d'ancrage - par rapport à leurs contextes de production et les liens qu'ils tissent entre eux. L'un des plans théoriques pris pour analyser l'influence de la dramaturgie et de l'esthétique de Pirandello sur le théâtre de Genet est de nature historique, portant précisément sur l'histoire du théâtre et des formes scéniques en Italie et en France au XXe siècle. Ce travail est étroitement lié à la question de l'auteur et à celle de l'influence. Outre le pirandellisme, la déconstruction du réalisme, le renoncement au mimétisme psychologique ou gestuel, aux effets d'illusion, la mise en espace d'un nouvel univers fictionnel et l'abondance des textes divers et didascalies qui dessinent et préconisent la mise en scène avec une précision méticuleuses sont autant de caractéristiques qui réunissent ces deux auteurs. / This thesis highlights and analyzes the Pirandellian themes in Jean Genet's plays. It proposes a redefinition of Pirandellism, which was the subject of much controversy from the time of its first definition, of philosophical inspiration, by the Italian critic Adriano Tilgher, in 1923. The new definition put forward here is based on five main characteristics: dualism between life and form; Pirandellian humourism; the supremacy of the art work over life; the impossibility of being a unified self; and metatheatricality. This new dramaturgical modelling of Pirandellism serves to analyze Pirandello's metatheatrical plays and all of Genet's theatre, with a view to understanding the historicity of the texts, that is, their anchorage – and sometimes absence thereof – in relation to their contexts of production and the relationships they weave between them. One of the theoretical frames of reference taken to analyze the influence of Pirandello's dramatic art and aesthetics on Genet's theatre is historical and precisely relevant to the history of theatre and scenic forms in 20th century Italy and France. This work is closely linked to the question of the author and of influence. Apart from Pirandellism, the deconstruction of realism, the giving up of psychological or gestural imitation and of the effects of illusion, the spatial framing of a new fictional world, and the abundance of varied texts and forms of stage direction that outline and recommend staging with meticulous precision are all characteristics common to these two authors.

La comédie mêlée d’ariettes, genre d’opéra-comique apparu au milieu du XVIIIe siècle, fait l’objet d’un regain d’intérêt depuis les années 1990 de la part des artistes et des chercheurs. Elle naît dans des circonstances marquées par le renouvellement de la comédie, et par l’apparition de l’esthétique en tant que discipline philosophique. De ce fait, elle témoigne d’une prise de distance vis-à-vis de la poétique classique, et d’un déplacement des critères d’évaluation de l’oeuvre d’art : la critique se détourne en partie de l’objet pour considérer le sujet : l’oeuvre est désormais jugée du point de vue de l’effet qu’elle produit. Dans ce contexte de libération vis-à-vis des normes académiques, la très grande diversité des pièces qui composent le répertoire de la comédie mêlée d’ariettes est telle que leur parenté ne va pas forcément de soi. Leur point commun le plus évident est l’alternance de dialogues parlés et d’airs, qui crée une discontinuité formelle à laquelle il faut ajouter une discontinuité stylistique et générique. Pour toutes ces raisons, on lui refuse parfois la qualité de « genre ». Il s’avère en tout cas qu’elle se dérobe à toute tentative de poétique. Toutefois, l’analyse des effets produits sur le public par la comédie mêlée d’ariettes met en évidence l’unité du répertoire et la cohérence interne à chaque pièce. Il semble donc pertinent d’adopter une approche esthétique plus que poétique, c’est-à-dire d’élaborer une dramaturgie du genre, en privilégiant une logique impressive qui conduit à opérer des rapprochements avec la peinture et le roman. La progression dramatique non linéaire du genre apparaît alors comme la conséquence d’une esthétique polarisée autour de « tableaux », autrement appelés « situations ». Ceux-ci favorisent l’irruption de la sensibilité au sein du réel prosaïque, et l’émergence d’une voix poétique, au service de l’expression d’une nostalgie dont la poésie lyrique traditionnelle n’est plus à même de se faire l’écho. / The comédie mêlée d’ariettes is a type of opéra-comique which emerged in the middle of the 18th century in France. Since the 1990s, artists and academics have shown renewed interest for this genre which came into being in a context characterized by the renewal of comedy and the emergence of aesthetics as a philosophical discipline. As a consequence, the comédie mêlée d’ariettes illustrates a shift of focus away from classical poetics and a significant change in the criteria used to judge the value of a work of art: critics partly turned away from the object in order focus on the subject – from then on, what mattered in the assessment of a work of art was the effect it produced. As playwrights let go of academics standards, the comédie mêlée d’ariettes repertoire is very diverse and therefore the kinship between the various plays is not self-evident. Their most obvious common point is the alternation of spoken dialogues and aria – or tunes, which creates a formal discontinuity that is to be added to the stylistic and generic discontinuity. For all these reasons, the comédie mêlée d’ariettes has often been denied the name of a “genre”. In any case, it proves difficult to formalize it into a poetics. However, analyzing the impact the comédie mêlée d’ariettes made on the public highlights both the unity of the repertoire and the internal coherence of each play. Consequently, it seems relevant to adopt an aesthetical rather than a poetical approach, that is to say to elaborate a dramatic theory of the genre favouring an impressionist logic which leads to comparisons with painting and the novel. The non-linear dramatic progression of the genre therefore appears to be the consequence of an aesthetics polarized around “stage pictures” (tableaux) also called “situations” The latter encourage both the sudden emergence of sensitivity amid the trivial reality and the apparition of a poetical voice which expressed a nostalgia that traditional lyrical poetry could no more voice.

Cette thèse entend montrer comment la naissance de la théorie du jeu théâtral au XVIIIe siècle contribue à la mise en cause du modèle mimétique classique au profit d'un nouveau modèle expressif. Considérant trois aires culturelles (la France, l'Angleterre et l'Allemagne), elle adopte une démarche chronologique, qui vise à souligner les changements dans la façon d’entendre le parallèle entre l'acteur, le peintre et l’orateur. Il apparaît ainsi que la théorie du jeu tire sa légitimité d'une réhabilitation du spectacle visuel, qui donne lieu à une esthétique du tableau scénique mettant en lumière la spécificité du jeu. En ce sens, elle ne se constitue pas en rupture avec les traités d’actio, mais par une réinterprétation visuelle de leurs principes, en faveur d'une éloquence corporelle naturelle libérée des codes de la rhétorique. Dès lors, sous l’influence du sensualisme, la place centrale accordée au corps de l'acteur créateur conduit à une série d'expérimentations théoriques et pratiques qui portent sur la production et la réception du sentiment au théâtre, et qui sont alimentées par les échanges d'un pays à l'autre. Ces réflexions hybrides participent à la redéfinition des arts de la représentation en termes de relation esthétique entre un sujet créateur et un sujet récepteur, et au passage d'une conception imitative à une approche expressive du sentiment. La diffusion, par David Garrick, d'une certaine image de Shakespeare, dont la dramaturgie contrevient aux règles de la poétique classique, joue un rôle important dans le développement de la théorie du jeu visuel et dans la définition du théâtre comme texte et représentation. / This work shows how the birth of acting in the eighteenth century calls into question the classical mimetic model in favour of a new expressive model. It examines three cultural areas: France, England, and Germany. It also adopts a chronological approch in order to analyse the changes undergone by the parallel between the actor, the painter and the orator. It then appears that acting theory draws its legitimacy from a rehabilitation of visual spectacle, which provokes the settling of an aesthetic of the stage paintng putting into light acting’s specificity. In that sense, acting theory does not emerge against writings on oratory action; on the contrary, it rises thanks to a visual re-interpreting of their principles freed from rhetorical codes. Hence, through the influence of sensualism, the major place given to the creative actor's body leads to theoretical and practical experimentations that concern the way to produce and to receive feelings, and which are nourished by multiple exchanges between the three countries. These hybrid reflections help redefine the art of representation as an aesthetic relation between a creating subject and a receiving subject. It contributes to the transition from an imitative conception of feeling to an expressive one. David Garrick’s spreading of a certain image of Shakespeare, whose dramaturgy offends the classical poetics rules, plays an important role in the development of a theory of visual acting an in the redefinition of theatre as text and representation.

En prenant appui sur quatre années d'expérimentations artistiques et théâtrales (2014-2018) dans la ville de Nice et le département des Alpes-Maritimes, cette thèse tente de rendre compte de la démarche intellectuelle et des processus mis en œuvre dans une création post-contemporaine. Elle donne à voir la particularité des expériences de l’artiste Laura Hurt qui est à la fois auteur, metteur en scène et chercheur-praticien-reflexif dans le cadre de cette thèse de création. Dans un va-et-vient de la théorie à la pratique et inversement, nous avons essayé de mettre en avant comment un parcours personnel chaotique et une solide formation artistique amènent à de nouvelles pistes de travail, en mettant notamment le public au cœur de toutes démarches artistiques, la question de la centralité du public dans une œuvre théâtrale constituant une donnée principale, capitale même, dans l'élaboration d'un spectacle afin d’aller dans la continuité du « théâtre pour tous », du « théâtre pauvre » ou encore du « théâtre élitaire pour tous » afin de découvrir comment aujourd’hui, l'acte de création peut mettre en avant des notions comme la fraternité et la concorde universelle par une attention particulière vis-à-vis du public et notamment celui qui a peu accès à l'art, le public dit « empêché ». Cette thèse analyse par une méthode heuristique l'en-dedans et l'en-dehors de la représentation scénique, et montre que l’interdisciplinaire, le performatif et l'acte poétique permettent une nouvelle liberté pour se rapprocher du public et effacent tout ce qui nous sépare, pour mieux retrouver ce qui nous rassemble. Cette thèse découle d'une volonté de théoriser, d'analyser, de décrypter, d'expliquer, de découvrir a posteriori les actes engagés dans une démarche artistique et de faire émerger le savoir muet, discret, intime, de la genèse épistémologique de l'artiste dans son acte créateur. / Drawing upon four years of artistic and theatrical experimentation (2014-2018) in the city of Nice and the department of Alpes-Maritimes, this thesis attempts to take account of the intellectual approach and processes involved in a post-contemporary creation. It reveals the particular nature of the experience of the artist Laura Hurt, who is both producer and researcher-practitioner-thinker in the framework of this thesis on creativity. Moving freely between theory and practice, we have tried to put forward how a chaotic personal journey and a solid artistic training lead to new ways of working, notably placing the public at the heart of all artistic approaches and whenever the question of the public’s central role in theatre might be of primary, even essential pertinence in the putting on of a spectacle aiming to continue the art of ‘theatre for all’, ‘poor or minimal theatre’ or even ‘elite theatre for everyone’, thereby discovering how, today, the creative act may promote notions such as fraternity and universal concord by paying special attention to the public and particularly that public having little access to art, the so-called handicapped public. This thesis analyses via its heuristic model the inner world and outer world of stage performance, and reveals how the interdisciplinary, the performative and the poetic act allow for a new freedom to draw closer to the public, erasing all that separates, so as to better reclaim what we share. The thesis derives from a desire to theorise, analyse, decode, explain and discover a posteriori those acts involved in an artistic approach, and to bring to light the intimate, discreet, unsaid knowledge of the artist’s epistemological genesis in her creative gesture.

La présente thèse a pour sujet les cinq premiers opéras du compositeur hongrois Peter Eötvös : Trois Sœurs, Le Balcon, Angels in America, Lady Sarashina et Love and Other Demons, opéras créés entre 1998 et 2008. À travers le filtre de la réflexion menée par Michel Foucault dans son ouvrage L’archéologie du savoir, il est question de déterminer dans quelle(s) mesures(s) les cinq opéras, envisagés dans leur rareté comme cinq entités singulières, viennent pourtant constituer une seule et même série. La réponse à cette problématique s’articule autour de trois parties. La première s’attache à la rencontre du compositeur avec des sources littéraires, rencontre qui oriente l’élaboration des livrets et qui motive le travail sur les langues russe, française et anglaise. La deuxième partie est consacrée à la caractérisation musicale/opératique des personnages, au traitement de la narration au sein des cinq opéras et au rôle de l’interprète, rôle intimement lié à la destinée des ouvrages lyriques. Enfin, la troisième partie se propose de présenter les cinq mondes des cinq opéras en tant que glissements de l’un à l’autre, en tant qu’héritages d’un passé musical recontextualisé et en tant que révolutions intimes et collectives obéissant à une unique visée, ou plutôt à un unique devoir : celui de la mémoire comme passeuse de vie. / This thesis is about the Hungarian composer Peter Eötvös’ first five operas: Trois Sœurs, Le Balcon, Angels in America, Lady Sarashina and Love and Other Demons, which were created between 1998 and 2008. Through the filter of Michel Foucault’s thinking developed in his work L’archéologie du savoir, the issue consists in determining to what extent(s) the five operas, considered in their rarity as five singular entities, form however one and the same series. The answer to this issue is in three parts. The first part applies to the composer coming across literary sources, which directs the librettos’ elaboration and motivates the work on Russian, French and English languages. The second part is devoted to the musical/operatic characterisation of the characters, to the narrative treatment within the five operas and the interpreter’s part, which is closely connected to lyrical works’ destiny. Finally, the third part intends to present the five worlds of the five operas as they slip from one into the other, as heritages of a recontextualized musical past, and as intimate and collective revolutions obeying one single aim, or more precisely one single duty: the one memory has to hand down life.

This dissertation introduces contemporary circus as a type of dramatic art. The work thus provides a basic framework for the analysis of contemporary circus and suggests a terminology for the designation of its specific traits. This terminology is derived first and foremost from the Czech theatre studies environment. The theoretical delineation of contemporary circus stems from selected theses from Otakar Zich's The Aesthetics of Dramatic Art and Erika Fischer-Lichte's The Transformative Power of Performance: A New Aesthetics. Contemporary circus, which is depicted as belonging to several discourses - historical, aesthetic, cultural policy and pedagogical, is described from a formal as well as content-focused point of view in order to best point out how the circus element changes and takes on meaning in relation to its theatrical counterpart. The thesis is subdivided into five parts. The introduction outlines the key theme, goals and methodology as well as terminology and theories which provide the work with a suitable point of departure. The Contemporary and Traditional Circus chapter describes the history and development of traditional as well as contemporary circus in selected countries (France, Canada, USA, Scandinavia) which are considered significant within the context of circus arts...