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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... becomes anxiety he admits is unclear ( 418 ) . This conversion process is then generalized to include other affects such as rage or anger , whereby anxiety is the " common coin " that appears in their place if they are repressed ( 419 ) ...
... becomes anxiety he admits is unclear ( 418 ) . This conversion process is then generalized to include other affects such as rage or anger , whereby anxiety is the " common coin " that appears in their place if they are repressed ( 419 ) ...
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... becomes increasingly transparent as the play progres- ses , and beneath it the dominant emotion of guilt and its ca- tharsis solidifies . We suggested that guilt was a good candi- date for tragic catharsis , a " similar emotion " to ...
... becomes increasingly transparent as the play progres- ses , and beneath it the dominant emotion of guilt and its ca- tharsis solidifies . We suggested that guilt was a good candi- date for tragic catharsis , a " similar emotion " to ...
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... becomes a tyrant over love as well , i.e. , it becomes generalized : " The unhappy person must love nothing at all , " Tellheim asserts ( 2.9 ) . Having already withdrawn from the world , Tellheim cannot easily make an exception ...
... becomes a tyrant over love as well , i.e. , it becomes generalized : " The unhappy person must love nothing at all , " Tellheim asserts ( 2.9 ) . Having already withdrawn from the world , Tellheim cannot easily make an exception ...
Contents
Comedy | 47 |
Tragedy | 81 |
Grief and Another Delay Theory Hamlet | 115 |
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