Weighing Delight and Dole: A Study of Comedy, Tragedy, and AnxietyThis work establishes a concept of anxiety reduction which is applied to a discussion of the literature on comedy and tragedy in order to propose new definitions of these genres. The results of this theoretical treatment are then employed in analyses of works of Shakespeare, Schiller, Buchner, Lessing, Cary, De Vries and Kafka." |
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Comedy | 47 |
Tragedy | 81 |
Grief and Another Delay Theory Hamlet | 115 |
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| Title | Weighing Delight and Dole: A Study of Comedy, Tragedy, and Anxiety 03, American university studies Volume 26 of American university studies: Comparative literature, ISSN 0724-1445 Volume 26 of Comparative literature |
| Author | Peter Bruce Waldeck |
| Publisher | P. Lang, 1989 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 26 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0820408468, 9780820408460 |
| Length | 275 pages |
| Subjects | › › Drama / General Literary Criticism / European / German Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory |
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