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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... look dispassionately at the particular group of critics and writers assembled here , we find they have much in common , which may help explain the intellectually coherent tone of the col- lection . They are men , with two exceptions ...
... ( look at Racine's copy of Euripides ) . Indeed , they may embody a major act of authorship , as do Coleridge's marginalia , soon to be published . Annotation may well occur in the margin , but it 6 THE ORDERING MIRROR.
... look at the major components of Chardin's Le Philosophe lisant tells us of the classical vision of the act of reading a vision we can document and detail in Western art from medieval representations of St. Jerome to the late nineteenth ...
... look to texts , except in mandarin arti- fice , as negating personal 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 ...
... look at other versions of the text , and find varnished spirits , which doesn't help much . What Conrad himself wrote was varnished sprits ; I've only to say it for you to think it obvious . Yet if some Boswell had guessed it , that ...
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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 |