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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... reality in the study of anxiety : ( 1 ) perceptual ( the world of the behaviorists and the physiolo- gists , where ... reality ; rather that reality extends upward and infuses itself with man's conceptual and perceptual capacities . To ...
... reality in the study of anxiety : ( 1 ) perceptual ( the world of the behaviorists and the physiolo- gists , where ... reality ; rather that reality extends upward and infuses itself with man's conceptual and perceptual capacities . To ...
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... reality strictly bounded by " that reality which stands over against all dreams , all the creations of art , as a permanent character of nature , both in men and things " ( 164 ) . Cary is writing here about Hitler's dream and its de ...
... reality strictly bounded by " that reality which stands over against all dreams , all the creations of art , as a permanent character of nature , both in men and things " ( 164 ) . Cary is writing here about Hitler's dream and its de ...
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... reality begins to supplant , then replace social reality . Language creates its own comic world , permitting comic rhythms of events and dia- log to assemble , sustain and augment themselves . Here the dangers of society can be dealt ...
... reality begins to supplant , then replace social reality . Language creates its own comic world , permitting comic rhythms of events and dia- log to assemble , sustain and augment themselves . Here the dangers of society can be dealt ...
Contents
Comedy | 47 |
Tragedy | 81 |
Grief and Another Delay Theory Hamlet | 115 |
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