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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... literary work is a psychological event both in the creating and in the experiencing . Psycholo- gy thus rises from the status of Hilfswissenschaft to a cen- tral discipline of literary interpretation . Rather than being merely the ...
... literary work is a psychological event both in the creating and in the experiencing . Psycholo- gy thus rises from the status of Hilfswissenschaft to a cen- tral discipline of literary interpretation . Rather than being merely the ...
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... literary analysis , as Reh argues , at the same time an encompassing and systematic statement of psychological principles useful for literary analysis does not yet exist . Typical of what Reh would attri- bute to the proclivities of the ...
... literary analysis , as Reh argues , at the same time an encompassing and systematic statement of psychological principles useful for literary analysis does not yet exist . Typical of what Reh would attri- bute to the proclivities of the ...
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... literary work , notably in tragedy . In comedy the literary characters themselves rep- resent levels of anxiety ( as implied by their problems ) that are likely to be somewhat closer to those of the spectators . In one way or another a ...
... literary work , notably in tragedy . In comedy the literary characters themselves rep- resent levels of anxiety ( as implied by their problems ) that are likely to be somewhat closer to those of the spectators . In one way or another a ...
Contents
Comedy | 47 |
Tragedy | 81 |
Grief and Another Delay Theory Hamlet | 115 |
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aggression Amphitruo Amphitryon anxiety reduction appears Aristotle Aristotle's arousal assert Brod Cary's catastrophe catharsis catharsis of fear central character Chick Claudius comic concept context danger Dantons Tod death defense discussion drama Elizabeth emotion esthetic event example experience fact feelings Frankfurt a/M Franz Kafka Freud Friedrich Schiller Georg Buechner German Gregor grief guilt Gulley Gulley's Hamlet Horse's Mouth hostility Humor iety incongruity individual inhibition inner issue Jimson Journal Joyce Cary kill Claudius Kris laughter Lessing Lessing's literary literature Maria Stuart Mary Mary's matter Max Brod Minna von Barnhelm Muenchen mysticism Nickie Nietzsche notion novel person Peter De Vries pity and fear play pleasure psychoanalysis psychological reality realized revenge role Saemtliche Schiller sense sentimental comedy sexual Shakespeare social social inhibition specifically spectator sublime suggested superego Tellheim theory threat tion tragedy tragic catharsis tragic hero transcendence vicarious Vries's Werke York