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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... feeling is a vague sense of something harmful or painful . We have come to mean still further by anxiety a wide array and a curious admixture of feelings that may cover also the area of remorse , contrition , guilt , and depres- sion ...
... feeling is a vague sense of something harmful or painful . We have come to mean still further by anxiety a wide array and a curious admixture of feelings that may cover also the area of remorse , contrition , guilt , and depres- sion ...
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... feelings ) and anxiety.23 We have already men- tioned guilt feelings as a fundamental form of anxiety in the philosophy of Tillich . In comparison to free - floating anxie- ty , guilt would represent ( at least where , as in tragedy ...
... feelings ) and anxiety.23 We have already men- tioned guilt feelings as a fundamental form of anxiety in the philosophy of Tillich . In comparison to free - floating anxie- ty , guilt would represent ( at least where , as in tragedy ...
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... feelings " ( 4.6 . ) . The same idea occurs in Lessing's discussion of love in the Hamburgische Dramaturgie : It is true , Voltaire lets his infatuated Zayre ex- press her feelings very finely , very respectably : but what is this ...
... feelings " ( 4.6 . ) . The same idea occurs in Lessing's discussion of love in the Hamburgische Dramaturgie : It is true , Voltaire lets his infatuated Zayre ex- press her feelings very finely , very respectably : but what is this ...
Contents
Comedy | 47 |
Tragedy | 81 |
Grief and Another Delay Theory Hamlet | 115 |
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