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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... noted . But Carroll E. Izard ( " Anxiety : A Variable Combination of Interacting Fundamental Emotions " ) has added an element of variability to this approach : anxiety involves fear and two or more of the fundamental emotions of ...
... noted . But Carroll E. Izard ( " Anxiety : A Variable Combination of Interacting Fundamental Emotions " ) has added an element of variability to this approach : anxiety involves fear and two or more of the fundamental emotions of ...
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... noted above ) . Second , there is no reason why anyone should react to pure incongruity in such an incongruous manner as laughter , or why this reaction should be pleasurable -- issues that have good explanations as anxiety reduction ...
... noted above ) . Second , there is no reason why anyone should react to pure incongruity in such an incongruous manner as laughter , or why this reaction should be pleasurable -- issues that have good explanations as anxiety reduction ...
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... noted only a general tone suggestive of masochism associated with Gregor's pin up . Then Walter Sokel , apparently independently of the Weinberg study , also noted a vague similarity ( Franz Kafka : Tragik und Ironie [ Muenchen , Wien ...
... noted only a general tone suggestive of masochism associated with Gregor's pin up . Then Walter Sokel , apparently independently of the Weinberg study , also noted a vague similarity ( Franz Kafka : Tragik und Ironie [ Muenchen , Wien ...
Contents
Comedy | 47 |
Tragedy | 81 |
Grief and Another Delay Theory Hamlet | 115 |
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