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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... experience ( 27 ) . One solution is to integrate these two levels , resulting in a view of the critical process as ... experience , among other things , forms the pri- mary material of his psychological and artistic activity . Thus what ...
... experience ( 27 ) . One solution is to integrate these two levels , resulting in a view of the critical process as ... experience , among other things , forms the pri- mary material of his psychological and artistic activity . Thus what ...
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... experience of the work as art and raise the issue of objective or general validity afterwards in the more abstract arena of scholarship . But with this sep- aration of scholarship from artistic experience we must ask whether one ...
... experience of the work as art and raise the issue of objective or general validity afterwards in the more abstract arena of scholarship . But with this sep- aration of scholarship from artistic experience we must ask whether one ...
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... experience between Mary and those around her , there remains for the spectator an ambivalence that qualifies both the pity and the transcendence . To the extent that we vicariously experience and enjoy Mary's transcenden- tal state we ...
... experience between Mary and those around her , there remains for the spectator an ambivalence that qualifies both the pity and the transcendence . To the extent that we vicariously experience and enjoy Mary's transcenden- tal state we ...
Contents
Comedy | 47 |
Tragedy | 81 |
Grief and Another Delay Theory Hamlet | 115 |
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