Weighing delight and dole : a study of comedy, tragedy, and anxiety

Author(s)

• Waldeck, Peter B. (Peter Bruce)

Bibliographic Information

Weighing delight and dole : a study of comedy, tragedy, and anxiety

Peter B. Waldeck

（American university studies, Series III, Comparative literature ; v. 26）

P. Lang, c1989

Note

Bibliography: p. [247]-268

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This 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, Buechner, Lessing, Cary, De Vries and Kafka.

Table of Contents

Contents: A study of comedy and tragedy based on anxiety reduction. Analyses of several literary works.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA10152665
• ISBN:
  • 0820408468
• LCCN: 88008875
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: x, 275 p.
• Size: 23 cm.
• Classification:
  • LCC : PN56.C66
  • DC19 : 809/.93353
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Comedy -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
  • LCSH : Tragedy -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
  • LCSH : Anxiety in literature
  • LCSH : Literature -- Psychology
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00180562