Title: The whispered meanings : selected essays of Simon O. Lesser /
Authors: Lesser, Simon O.; Sprich, C. Robert; Noland, Richard W.
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press,
Year: 1977
Subjects: Literature History and criticism; Psychoanalysis and literature.
Contents: A note on Pamela.--Freud and Hamlet again.--The attitude of fiction.--Hawthorne's "My kinsman, Major Molineux".--Saint and sinner.--The source of guilt and the sense of guilt--Kafka's The trial.--The role of unconscious understanding in Flaubert and Dostoevsky.--L'avventura: a closer look.--The Odyssey : the hidden dreams.--"Sailing to Byzantium".--Oedipus the king: the two dramas, the two conflicts.--Act one, scene one, of Lear.--Reflections on Pinter's The Birthday party.--Macbeth.