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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... serve as confir- mations of the definitions at the same time the definitions help us gain access to the literary contexts . I will accor- dingly not restrict my discussion to a narrow tracing of the proposed basic processes in the ...
... serve as confir- mations of the definitions at the same time the definitions help us gain access to the literary contexts . I will accor- dingly not restrict my discussion to a narrow tracing of the proposed basic processes in the ...
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... serves self - preservational and hence anxiety reduc- ing ends . Literature as an act of creation may serve to re- solve the artist's inner turmoil . More centrally , such genres as tragedy and comedy vicariously serve anxiety reducing ...
... serves self - preservational and hence anxiety reduc- ing ends . Literature as an act of creation may serve to re- solve the artist's inner turmoil . More centrally , such genres as tragedy and comedy vicariously serve anxiety reducing ...
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... serve to manifest the decline of the narrator and make him infer- ior -- comic value as wit with a minus sign . The good puns con- tain besides pure word - play some aptness or tendency , as in the two young protagonists ' play , " Wise ...
... serve to manifest the decline of the narrator and make him infer- ior -- comic value as wit with a minus sign . The good puns con- tain besides pure word - play some aptness or tendency , as in the two young protagonists ' play , " Wise ...
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