The Ordering Mirror: Readers and ContextsFordham Univ Press, 1993 - 304 psl. In 1977, Bennington College alumna Edith Barbour Andrews established the Ben Belitt Lectureships in gratitude to her teacher Ben Belitt and dedicated the publication of the lectures (in the form of chapbooks) to the memory of William Troy, another of her beloved teachers. The collection, published here in one volume, comprises lectures by some of the most inspiring writers and keenest critics of our time. In his introduciton to The Ordering Mirror, Phillip Lopate contrasts the anticipations and the audience/lecturer dynamic inherent in attending yearly lecture, with the experience of reading them, and the opportunity for reflection and comparison. Lopate summarizes that, "It is enough to appreciate that we are watching masters of the game of essay-writing, who, even as they comment on the masterpieces of other writers, practice their own wizardry." The volume includes: George Steiner, "The Uncommon Reader" (1978) |
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... but one so charged with meaning that an exhaustive commentary would nearly com- prise a history of the Western sense of invention and of death . As Chardin places it , the hourglass declares the relationship of 2 THE ORDERING MIRROR.
... death and have ful- filled what Paul Eluard defined as the artist's central compulsion : le dure désir de durer ( indeed , books can even survive themselves , leapfrogging out of the shadow of their own initial being : there are vital ...
... Death in Western art and allegory points up the twofold signification of Chardin's composition : the afterlife of the book , the brevity of the life of man without whom the book lies buried . To repeat : the interactions of meaning ...
... death's head . The whole relationship between time and word , between mortality and the paradox of literary survivance , crucial to Western high culture from Pindar to Mallarmé and self - evidently central to Chardin's painting , has ...
... death . " All is precarious , " says Belitt , A maniac waits on the streets . Nobody listens . What must I do ? I am writing on water . . . . The desolate phrase is , of course , Keats's . But it was denied , at once , in Shelley's ...
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Whitmans Image of Voice | 42 |
The Politics of Modern Criticism | 72 |
The Making of a Critic | 93 |
Wilde Yeats Joyce | 115 |
Long Work Short Life | 134 |
Three Spiritual Exercises | 147 |
Summations | 164 |
Magic and Spells | 182 |
Nabokov on Cruelty | 198 |
Collective Violence and Sacrifice in Shakespeares Julius Caesar | 221 |
Fiction Morals and Politics | 243 |
Dylan the Durable? On Dylan Thomas | 255 |
What Henry James Knew | 276 |