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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... catharsis of pity and fear also remains unclear . Does he mean catharsis that is itself pity and fear , or that is performed by pity and fear , or performed upon pity and fear ? It is probably impossible to answer these questions solely ...
... catharsis of pity and fear also remains unclear . Does he mean catharsis that is itself pity and fear , or that is performed by pity and fear , or performed upon pity and fear ? It is probably impossible to answer these questions solely ...
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... catharsis , rather than something catharsis acts upon , reducing it . This is not consistent with our view of fear , requiring simultaneously two different interpretations of the genitive " catharsis of pity and fear " in Aristotle's ...
... catharsis , rather than something catharsis acts upon , reducing it . This is not consistent with our view of fear , requiring simultaneously two different interpretations of the genitive " catharsis of pity and fear " in Aristotle's ...
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... catharsis of fear , and proposed adding guilt as a catharsis- eligible affect . The opposing contexts of mastery over ( or denial ) and acceptance of danger both unify and contrast the comic and tragic . It remained to see whether the ...
... catharsis of fear , and proposed adding guilt as a catharsis- eligible affect . The opposing contexts of mastery over ( or denial ) and acceptance of danger both unify and contrast the comic and tragic . It remained to see whether the ...
Contents
Comedy | 47 |
Tragedy | 81 |
Grief and Another Delay Theory Hamlet | 115 |
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