Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2004. / Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 142 p. Includes abstract and vita. Advisers: John Conteh-Morgan and Karlis Racevskis, Dept. of Fench and Italian. Includes bibliographical references (p. 134-142).

This thesis explores the profound influence of twentieth-century philosophy, and in particular the writings of phenomenologist Jan Patočka, on Wajdi Mouawad. While Mouawad's literary and dramatic sources have been widely discussed in recent scholarship, his philosophical sources have remained under-explored. Seeking to rectify this critical lacuna, the thesis addresses the key concepts Mouawad draws from the writings of Patočka including the central role of 'trace'. Through its investigation of Mouawad's engagement with Patočka, this thesis delineates Mouawad's philosophical and ethical aims. The thesis first considers the multiplicity of self in Mouawad's work, and its relationship to Patočka's 'shakenness' and 'care for the soul'. Chapter 1 investigates how an internal confrontation provoked by trace leads to a search for meaning as 'the soul discovers itself'. It analyses Mouawad's first play, Willy Protagoras enfermé dans les toilettes, and the more recent Seuls, to address the evolution of Mouawad's notion of self. Chapter 2 explores the significance of temporal awareness and time, as Patočka's three movements of human existence drive Mouawad's protagonists in their experience of shakenness. The plays discussed are Littoral, in which Mouawad first essayed non-linear time structures, and Incendies, which utilises a complex temporal oscillation. Chapter 3 turns to space as what arises through the individual's relationship to the world, focusing on Forêts and Ciels, two of Mouawad's most spatially complex productions. Chapter 4 examines two of Mouawad's recent plays, Temps and Sœurs, in its investigation of the role of testimony in developing the solidarity that emerges through the encounter with the other. The thesis then concludes with a discussion of how, and to what extent, Mouawad tackles his ambitions, particularly in their relation to trace.

Proefschrift--Groningen. / "Stellingen": 1 leaf (laid in). "Bibliographie": p. [238]-247.

Proefschrift--Groningen. / "Stellingen": 1 leaf (laid in). "Bibliographie": p. [238]-247.

Este trabalho tem o objetivo de investigar a dramaturgia do francês Jean-Luc Lagarce (1957-1995) examinando algumas características da sua escrita que chamamos de \'estratégias narrativas\' e que evidenciam o lugar central da palavra, escrita e falada, no seu teatro. Propõe-se adentrar o universo de Lagarce tomando-se como objeto de estudo elementos de alguns dos seus textos que permitem apontar tais esratégias e tentar definir como operam. A análise comparativa das duas versões do texto de Lagarce História de amor permite refletir sobre o personagem lagarceano, sua configuração e condição própria, dentro de um \'teatro da palavra\' que, por consequência, pode também ser pensado como um \'teatro da escuta\' e esculpido por um conjunto de vozes. Deseja-se, ainda, experimentar um olhar sobre a própria pesquisa, fazendo uso do diário enquanto estratégia narrativa e tentando buscar, no encontro com as diversas vozes que a atravessaram, a emergência de voz própria capaz de traduzir uma história de amor. / This work has as objective to investigate the dramaturgy of Jean-Luc Lagarce (1957-1995) examining some of his writing characteristics that we call \'narrative strategies\' to show the centrality of the word, written and spoken, in his theater. It is proposed to enter the Lagarce\'s universe taking as object of study some elements of their texts that may point out such strategies and try to define how they operate. In-depth analysis of the two versions of the text Love Story allows reflect on the lagarceano character, its own configuration and condition within a \'word theater\' which therefore can also be thought of as a \'theater of listening\' and sculpted by a set of voices. We wish to also experience a glimpse into the research itself, using the diary as narrative strategy and trying to get on meeting the diverse voices that crossed the emergence of own voice able to translate a love story.

Eighteenth-century opéras comiques often turn around moments of sympathy--moral and affective bonds through which the Enlightenment imagined a natural basis for the social order as well as the pleasures and transformative potential of art. Through musico-literary analysis informed by models of moral and aesthetic relationality that I derive from Dubos, Marivaux, Rousseau and Diderot, I argue that opéras comiques written and performed between 1835and the Revolution feature three distinct forms of sympathy: 1) a worldly-sensuous sympathy most typically found in the common subgenre of the sentimental pastorale and characterized by a happy blending of moral and sensual connections; 2) an amorous intersubjectivity found occasionally in sentimental comedies and characterized by a sometimes empowering, sometimes trying encounter with an other experienced as a site of subjective freedom; and finally 3) a sacrificial sympathy found most frequently in Michel-Jean Sedaine's sometimes pointedly anti-worldly, morally sober lyric dramas and characterized by an obstacle-triggered leap into an identificatory, affective imagination. Although there is much that distinguishes these forms of sympathy, they are all shaped by eighteenth-century empiricist assumptions as to the existence of a basic relationality between the self and his or her social environment and thus resist a standard critical model that sees such emotional ties as merely the effect of some more fundamental separation between self and other.

Este trabalho tem o objetivo de investigar a dramaturgia do francês Jean-Luc Lagarce (1957-1995) examinando algumas características da sua escrita que chamamos de \'estratégias narrativas\' e que evidenciam o lugar central da palavra, escrita e falada, no seu teatro. Propõe-se adentrar o universo de Lagarce tomando-se como objeto de estudo elementos de alguns dos seus textos que permitem apontar tais esratégias e tentar definir como operam. A análise comparativa das duas versões do texto de Lagarce História de amor permite refletir sobre o personagem lagarceano, sua configuração e condição própria, dentro de um \'teatro da palavra\' que, por consequência, pode também ser pensado como um \'teatro da escuta\' e esculpido por um conjunto de vozes. Deseja-se, ainda, experimentar um olhar sobre a própria pesquisa, fazendo uso do diário enquanto estratégia narrativa e tentando buscar, no encontro com as diversas vozes que a atravessaram, a emergência de voz própria capaz de traduzir uma história de amor. / This work has as objective to investigate the dramaturgy of Jean-Luc Lagarce (1957-1995) examining some of his writing characteristics that we call \'narrative strategies\' to show the centrality of the word, written and spoken, in his theater. It is proposed to enter the Lagarce\'s universe taking as object of study some elements of their texts that may point out such strategies and try to define how they operate. In-depth analysis of the two versions of the text Love Story allows reflect on the lagarceano character, its own configuration and condition within a \'word theater\' which therefore can also be thought of as a \'theater of listening\' and sculpted by a set of voices. We wish to also experience a glimpse into the research itself, using the diary as narrative strategy and trying to get on meeting the diverse voices that crossed the emergence of own voice able to translate a love story.

Thesis advisor: Kevin Newmark / India featured in a large number of performances on the nineteenth-century French stage. The term “contact zones” coined by Mary Louise Pratt in her article “Arts of the Contact Zone” designates spaces where two cultures “meet, clash, and grapple with each other” (34). The nineteenth-century French stage functioned as an ideal contact zone, providing a dynamic forum for the construction of French and Indian identities. My corpus is selected to demonstrate the breadth and diversity of India as a trope in nineteenth-century theatrical performances. In the dissertation, I analyze the plays both as text and performance. In addition, I situate the plays within the context of their time. Theater reviews are an important tool in achieving this contextualization: they allow a play to be studied in situ, giving a glimpse of the social, political, and cultural circumstances surrounding the production. The effects of a turbulent political and social environment are studied by investigating shifts in audience reactions to the same play or to a similar one over a period of time. The study considers an author’s avowed intentions, as recorded in an accompanying preface, along with both the text of the play and the audience response chronicled in press reviews, to see if intention, expression, and reception coincide. The effort is to understand the play as a dynamic event that occurs simultaneously in two directions. On the one hand, the play is shaped by its environment; on the other, it works to inform and influence the audiences who witness it. The nuanced interaction between the Self and the Other is rendered more visible through this approach. With the support of colonial and post-colonial theories such as Orientalism, subalterneity, and hybridity, the issues that are disclosed in this analysis of nineteenth-century French theater are rendered current and relevant. The dissertation is composed of three main chapters. Each chapter is unified in theme, viz. Historical drama, Bayadères, and Sanskrit drama. Different plays with similar themes or different adaptations of the same play are compared to each other. Shifts in time and perspective are recorded, both in the creation as well as the reception of these plays. The treatment of stereotypes is studied in all three chapters. In addition, for each chapter, a specific issue that is particular to that section of the corpus is highlighted: problems of veracity in ostensibly factual historical accounts for Historical drama, the challenges of reconciling reality with imagination (contrasting the actual visit of Indian dancers in France to the theatrical representations of bayadères) for the chapter on bayadères, and challenges of translation for Sanskrit drama. This reveals the complex underpinnings of plays that could appear banal at first glance. The dissertation unfolds the manner in which the French contend with India in the role of the Other during the nineteenth century, when interest in India was at its peak in France. Even when reduced to a finite number of stereotypes, India is perceived as a space of excess; its complex and multifaceted nature is exacerbated by its size and distance from France. India is found to be overwhelming and beyond the reach of French possession, physical or ideological. India cannot be easily co-opted into French narratives of identity-formation: any construction of national, racial or cultural identity, whether of the French Self or the Indian Other, is shown to be unstable. Over the course of the nineteenth century, India reverts to being the place of myth and fantasy it has been since medieval times. Nevertheless, traces of India’s presence on the nineteenth-century stage linger in twenty-first century France in subtle but unmistakable ways. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2018. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Romance Languages and Literatures.

Si d'aucuns pensent que la tragédie est morte, le tragique quant à lui reste une catégorie théâtrale toujours actuelle. Chez Eugène Ionesco, dramaturge de la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle, nous retrouvons le sens du tragique dans ses oeuvres même si celui-ci diffère de l'époque antique. Le tragique ionescien s'inspire sur une vision du monde fondamentalement absurde. Ainsi, à l'instar de ses contemporains comme Samuel Beckett par exemple, Eugène Ionesco propose un tragique humble (cf. Jeux de massacre : tragique = absence d'issue), un tragique politique à la mesure des bouleversements du siècle (cf. Rhinocéros, Le Roi se meurt, Macbett, etc.). A la place des héros combattants, on a chez Ionesco des fantoches qui gesticulent, des objets qui prolifèrent (cf. Les Chaises) ; un langage humain qui est mis en cause (cf. La Cantatrice chauve « tragédie du langage »). Le théâtre d'Eugène Ionesco naît plutôt de la crise de l'humanisme. / If some people think that the tragedy died, the tragic as for him rest an always current theatrical category. At Eugène Ionesco, playwright of the second half of the XXth century, we find the sense (direction) of the tragic in its works even if this one differs from the antique time (period).The ionescien tragic is inspired on a vision of the world fundamentally absurd. So, following the example of his contemporaries as Samuel Beckett for example, Eugène Ionesco proposes a tragic humble (cf. Games (sets) of massacre: tragic = absence of outcome (exit)), a tragic political in the measure of the upheavals of the century (cf. Rhinoceros, King is dying, Macbett, etc.). On the place (square) of the heroes fighters, we have at Ionesco the marionettes which gesture, objects which proliferate (cf. Chairs); a human language which is questioned (implicated) (cf. The bald Opera singer "tragedy of the language"). The theater of Eugène Ionesco arises rather from the crisis of the humanism.

Le théâtre contemporain chinois a un lien étroit avec le théâtre occidental. Depuis un siècle, le théâtre chinois, notamment le théâtre parlé, analyse et s’approprie les cultures occidentales en filtrant et en reprenant certains points en fonction de ses propres intérêts et de ses présupposés.Cette appropriation s’accompagne d’une série d’opérations théâtrales.Dans cette perspective, nous avons présenté en détail, la réception du théâtre français dans la Chine des quarante dernières années en deux temps : de 1978 à 1992 et de 1993 à 2014, en analysant des cas précis et variés. Nous avons mis l’accent sur les caractéristiques historiques de chaque période qui influencent clairement l’environnement général du théâtre chinois et son rapport avec le théâtre occidental, en précisant l’influence et le rôle majeur qu'a joué le théâtre français dans le paysage de la culture moderne chinoise et notamment ses créations théâtrales.Ses échanges riches avec le théâtre français permettent au théâtre chinois de dialoguer, des’interroger, d’évoluer et de reconstruire sa propre identité. / Contemporary Chinese theater has a close connection with Western theater. For one century, Chinese theater, and especially spoken theater, has analyzed and appropriated Western cultures by filtering and summing up characteristics according to its own interests and presuppositions.This appropriation is accompanied by a series of theatrical operations.In this perspective, we have presented in detail, analyzing specific and varied cases, the reception of French theater in China of the last forty years in two stages: from 1978 to 1992 and from 1993 to 2014. We have emphasized the historical characteristics of each period, which clearly influence the general environment of Chinese theater and its relation to Western theater, by highlighting the influence and the major role played by French theater in the landscape of modern Chinese culture and especially his theatrical creations. The rich exchanges with Frenchtheater allow the Chinese theater to dialogue, to question, to evolve and to rebuild its ownidentity.