This dissertation is devoted to the stage history of Goethe’s Faust I in Imperial Russia with the goal of initiating academic discussion of this previously ignored topic. The significance of this study lies not only in the fact that it enlarges our comprehension of the play’s treatment in the Russian context, but more importantly in its direct implications for earlier studies of Russian literature in relation to Goethe’s Faust. The dissertation records analytically dramatic productions of the play before 1917 and provides a bibliography of their production, performance and reception processes. The central premise of the dissertation is that theatre is a social phenomenon, informed by the contemporary setting in which it is produced and received. With this in mind, five distinctive adaptations are investigated with the goal of identifying the peculiarities of the play’s treatment and highlighting the influences of the socio-historical factors surrounding it. In particular, this study considers the dependence of the adaptation on contemporary theatrical conventions and explores the relationship between theatre, culture and the state in Imperial Russia. It argues that a successful adaptation of Goethe’s Faust I in Imperial Russia was delayed until the flourishing of ‘directorial theatre’, which in turn opened new possibilities for future theatrical explorations of the play. The analysis describes strategies of cultural appropriation and affirms the conformity and sensitivity of theatre to the state.

This dissertation is devoted to the stage history of Goethe’s Faust I in Imperial Russia with the goal of initiating academic discussion of this previously ignored topic. The significance of this study lies not only in the fact that it enlarges our comprehension of the play’s treatment in the Russian context, but more importantly in its direct implications for earlier studies of Russian literature in relation to Goethe’s Faust. The dissertation records analytically dramatic productions of the play before 1917 and provides a bibliography of their production, performance and reception processes. The central premise of the dissertation is that theatre is a social phenomenon, informed by the contemporary setting in which it is produced and received. With this in mind, five distinctive adaptations are investigated with the goal of identifying the peculiarities of the play’s treatment and highlighting the influences of the socio-historical factors surrounding it. In particular, this study considers the dependence of the adaptation on contemporary theatrical conventions and explores the relationship between theatre, culture and the state in Imperial Russia. It argues that a successful adaptation of Goethe’s Faust I in Imperial Russia was delayed until the flourishing of ‘directorial theatre’, which in turn opened new possibilities for future theatrical explorations of the play. The analysis describes strategies of cultural appropriation and affirms the conformity and sensitivity of theatre to the state.

Submitted by FABRICIO MESQUITA DE ARO null (farotransmidia@gmail.com) on 2016-12-14T14:39:43Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Distorções-Elásticas-no-Cinema-Digital-de-Alexandr-Sokurov.pdf: 4048829 bytes, checksum: 607a1b260496bee0c99b0555423dc805 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Felipe Augusto Arakaki (arakaki@reitoria.unesp.br) on 2016-12-19T17:36:29Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 aro_fm_me_bauru.pdf: 4048829 bytes, checksum: 607a1b260496bee0c99b0555423dc805 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-19T17:36:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 aro_fm_me_bauru.pdf: 4048829 bytes, checksum: 607a1b260496bee0c99b0555423dc805 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-10-27 / O presente trabalho pretende elucidar os mecanismos que negaram a perspectiva linear por meio da distorção da imagem no cinema de Alexandr Sokurov. A partir da teoria da Dobra de Deleuze e dos preceitos da Perspectiva Inversa de Pável Floriênski, serão analisadas obras pictóricas, que vão do Barroco, passando pela Bauhaus, chegando até Francis Bacon. Tais obras entrarão em sintonia com a filmografia de Sokurov utilizando o termo da “distorção elástica”, pressupondo um deslocamento não-espacial e temporal-não-linear através da análise fílmica e estética das obras. A adaptação de Fausto de Goethe realizada pelo cineasta russo em 2012, será o elemento condutor ao elucidar o trânsito imagético do suporte analógico para o digital e suas potencialidades estéticas de subversão à perspectiva linear. / The present work intends to elucidate the mechanisms that denied the linear perspective inherited from Ancient Greece and emphasized in the Renaissance period, to undergo the process of distortion of this mechanism of representation. From the theory of Deleuze's Dobra and the precepts of the Inverse Perspective of Pável Floriênski, will be analyzed pictorial works, ranging from the Baroque, passing by the Bauhaus, reaching Francis Bacon. Such works will be in tune with the filmmaking of the Russian filmmaker Alexandr Sokurov using the term "elastic distortion", presupposing a non-spatial and non-linear displacement through the filmic and aesthetic analysis of works. Goethe's Faust's adaptation by the Russian filmmaker in 2012 will be the driving element in elucidating the imaginary transit from analog to digital support and its aesthetic potential from subversion to linear perspective.