Othello

Description:

It is one of the peculiar splendors of Othello that we cannot understand Othello’s belated jealousy without first understanding Iago’s primal envy of Othello, which is at the hidden center of the play. I think it is no accident that nearly every phrase of Lacan’s critique of psychoanalysis seems a brilliant reading of Othello, for I would propose that there is a deep resemblance between the construction of self in analysis—at least as Lacan conceives it—and Othello’s self-fashioning. VIVA MODERN CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS presents the best current criticism on the most widely read and studied poems, novels and dramas of the Western world, from Oedipus Rex and the Iliad to such modern and contemporary works as William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and Don Delillo’s White Noise. Each volume opens with an introductory essay and editor’s note by Harold Bloom and includes a bibliography, a chronology of the author’s life and works, and notes on the contributors. Taken together, VIVA MODERN CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS provides a comprehensive critical guide to the most vital and influential works of the Western literary tradition.

Target Audience:

Students of Literature, English Departments & Libraries