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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... hence anxiety - related emotions . The mechanism that permits this saving is the superego , which assumes a role as " superior " parent untroubled by the problems of the child - ego . This view is noteworthy for two reasons : ( 1 ) an ...
... hence anxiety - related emotions . The mechanism that permits this saving is the superego , which assumes a role as " superior " parent untroubled by the problems of the child - ego . This view is noteworthy for two reasons : ( 1 ) an ...
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... hence vicarious in its nature , and other emotions whose presence in the specta- tor might well be questioned . He is certainly right in doubt- ing whether we as spectators feel terror ( " Schrecken " ) . But don't we love Cordelia or ...
... hence vicarious in its nature , and other emotions whose presence in the specta- tor might well be questioned . He is certainly right in doubt- ing whether we as spectators feel terror ( " Schrecken " ) . But don't we love Cordelia or ...
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... hence also underscored by Lessing , when Just offers the same leave - tak- ing to Franziska and she also takes him literally : " I would- n't want such a servant ! " ( 3.2 ) ( 5 ) Amphitryon is enraged at the insolence he encounters in ...
... hence also underscored by Lessing , when Just offers the same leave - tak- ing to Franziska and she also takes him literally : " I would- n't want such a servant ! " ( 3.2 ) ( 5 ) Amphitryon is enraged at the insolence he encounters in ...
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Comedy | 47 |
Tragedy | 81 |
Grief and Another Delay Theory Hamlet | 115 |
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