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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... novels on the differing versions of the three main characters of the same events , or at least the same time period ; or if , as time proceeded from one novel to the next , the three characters continued to re- main together in the ...
... novels on the differing versions of the three main characters of the same events , or at least the same time period ; or if , as time proceeded from one novel to the next , the three characters continued to re- main together in the ...
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... novel nevertheless possesses a figure missing in his later novels : the co - protagonist Nickie Sherman . ( To be ... novel begins with Chick and Nickie as seventeen- year - old boulevardiers in the style of Oscar Wilde , intellec ...
... novel nevertheless possesses a figure missing in his later novels : the co - protagonist Nickie Sherman . ( To be ... novel begins with Chick and Nickie as seventeen- year - old boulevardiers in the style of Oscar Wilde , intellec ...
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... novels of Camus , Sartre , Robbe - Grillet , Barth , Heller and Dennis . Contents : This book traces the emergence of the « nonegological self >> in the novel under the influence of Existentialism , Phenomenology , and the Bergso- nian ...
... novels of Camus , Sartre , Robbe - Grillet , Barth , Heller and Dennis . Contents : This book traces the emergence of the « nonegological self >> in the novel under the influence of Existentialism , Phenomenology , and the Bergso- nian ...
Contents
Comedy | 47 |
Tragedy | 81 |
Grief and Another Delay Theory Hamlet | 115 |
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