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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... discussion , then , aside from applying the concepts and definitions derived in the theoretical discussion I will not be employing the instru- ments of an established discipline of psychology . Rather I will hunt about in textual and ...
... discussion , then , aside from applying the concepts and definitions derived in the theoretical discussion I will not be employing the instru- ments of an established discipline of psychology . Rather I will hunt about in textual and ...
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... discussion of tragic theory in Germany . George also re- jects Lessing's theory wittily as " less a theory of tragedy than an essay on Empfindsamkeit . n7 Nevertheless Lessing of- fers us the intense focus on pity and fear that we ...
... discussion of tragic theory in Germany . George also re- jects Lessing's theory wittily as " less a theory of tragedy than an essay on Empfindsamkeit . n7 Nevertheless Lessing of- fers us the intense focus on pity and fear that we ...
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... discussion of the relationship of pity and fear , but , unlike Lessing , concludes that " fear is the primary emotion from which pity derives its meaning " ( 257 ) . In our discussion of Lessing we mentioned the danger in equating the ...
... discussion of the relationship of pity and fear , but , unlike Lessing , concludes that " fear is the primary emotion from which pity derives its meaning " ( 257 ) . In our discussion of Lessing we mentioned the danger in equating the ...
Contents
Comedy | 47 |
Tragedy | 81 |
Grief and Another Delay Theory Hamlet | 115 |
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