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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... sexual or hostile / aggressive content . The pleasure here is first of all in the satisfac- tion of the sexual or hostile impulse itself . The function of the joke or witticism as a formal construction is to permit this expression ...
... sexual or hostile / aggressive content . The pleasure here is first of all in the satisfac- tion of the sexual or hostile impulse itself . The function of the joke or witticism as a formal construction is to permit this expression ...
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... sexual humor content as " funniest . This could reflect a close relationship Freud noted between sexual and hostile aggression . Strickland ( 1959 ) also found a pos- itive correlation between sexual arousal and " preference " for ...
... sexual humor content as " funniest . This could reflect a close relationship Freud noted between sexual and hostile aggression . Strickland ( 1959 ) also found a pos- itive correlation between sexual arousal and " preference " for ...
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... sexual content decreased humor appreciation in one experiment , and Wilson and Molleston found that " nonsexual , non - hostile humor was given a more positive overall rating than the other types , " but that " sexual non - exploitative ...
... sexual content decreased humor appreciation in one experiment , and Wilson and Molleston found that " nonsexual , non - hostile humor was given a more positive overall rating than the other types , " but that " sexual non - exploitative ...
Contents
Comedy | 47 |
Tragedy | 81 |
Grief and Another Delay Theory Hamlet | 115 |
Copyright | |
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