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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... anxiety , as Wilcott suggests . It is crucial that we be in a position to account for anxiety reduction even -- and especially -- in the spectator or reader comfortably ensconced in his seat or sofa and enjoying a literary work without ...
... anxiety , as Wilcott suggests . It is crucial that we be in a position to account for anxiety reduction even -- and especially -- in the spectator or reader comfortably ensconced in his seat or sofa and enjoying a literary work without ...
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... anxiety are subject to reduction by ( vicarious ) humor . Shurcliff ( 1968 ) , dealing with a broad notion of arousal reduction , concludes by questioning this concept : A serious deficiency of the relief theory is its failure to ...
... anxiety are subject to reduction by ( vicarious ) humor . Shurcliff ( 1968 ) , dealing with a broad notion of arousal reduction , concludes by questioning this concept : A serious deficiency of the relief theory is its failure to ...
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... reducing anxiety than either quotations or distractions . " " Anxiety reduction was related to the degree 33 to which subjects perceived the jokes as funny " ( 121 ) . But Deffenbacher , Deitz and Hazaleus ( 1981 ) found that " manipu ...
... reducing anxiety than either quotations or distractions . " " Anxiety reduction was related to the degree 33 to which subjects perceived the jokes as funny " ( 121 ) . But Deffenbacher , Deitz and Hazaleus ( 1981 ) found that " manipu ...
Contents
Comedy | 47 |
Tragedy | 81 |
Grief and Another Delay Theory Hamlet | 115 |
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