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) |
Knygos viduje
Rezultatai 15 iš 34
... tion is , in 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 ...
... tion borne out by the matte but aureate sheen of the coloration . Though clearly at home , the reader is " coiffed " -an archaic word which does convey the requisite note of almost heraldic ceremony ( that the shape and treatment of the ...
... tion of learning and sensitivity , of empathy with the original and imaginative scruple which produce a just emendation is , as Housman went on to say , of the rarest order . The stakes are high and ambiguous : Theobald may have won ...
... tion and counter - statement ( many books are anti - bodies to other books ) . But the principal truth is this : latent in every act of com- plete reading is the compulsion to write a book in reply . The intel- lectual is , quite simply ...
... tion - all this lore is now quite well understood . The liberty to divine is reduced by this understanding of the possibilities , and even geniuses are no longer allowed the freedom enjoyed by , say , the great Bentley . All the same ...
Turinys
1 | |
21 | |
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 |