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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... fact , part and parcel of the essay form , as Georg Lukács pointed out . It is at the root of that humor and that irony which we find in the writings of every truly great essayist . . . . And the irony I mean con- sists in the critic ...
... fact that the reader is wearing a hat is of distinct resonance . Ethnographers have yet to tell us what general meanings apply to the distinction between those religious and ritual practices which demand that the participant be covered ...
... he is reading . The excerpts he makes can vary from the briefest of quotations to voluminous transcriptions . The multiplication and dissemination of written material after Gutenberg in fact increases the GEORGE STEINER 7.
... fact borne witness to by the recollections of men and women as diverse as John Henry Newman , Abraham Lincoln , George Eliot , or Carlyle - it is customary for the young and for committed readers throughout their lives to transcribe ...
... fact that we may be interrupted by the ring of the tele- phone , by the ancillary fact that most of us will , except under con- straints of stoic resolve , answer the telephone , whatever else we may be doing . We need a history of ...
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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 |