The Ordering Mirror: Readers and Contexts

Philip Lopate

Published by Fordham University Press 1993

The Ordering Mirror

Readers and Contexts

Philip Lopate

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823296552

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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)
Frank Kermode, "Divination" (1979)
Harold Bloom, "To the Tally of My Soul: Whitman's Image of Voice" (1980)
Denis Donoghue, "The Politics of Modern Criticism" (1981)
Irving Howe, "The Making of a Critic" (1982)
Richard Ellman, "The Uses of Decadence: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce" (1983)
Bernard Malamud, "Long Work, Short Life" (1984)
Ben Belitt, "Literature and Belief: Three 'Spiritual Exercises'" (1985)
Saul Bellow, "Summations" (1987)
Hugh Kenner, "Magics and Spells (about curses, charms, and riddles)" (1987)
Richard Rorty, "The Barber of Kasbeam: Nabokov on Cruelty" (1988)
Rene Girard, "Collective Violence and Sacrifice in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar" (1989)
Nadine Gordimer, "Three in a Bed: Fiction, Morals and Politics" (1990)
Seamus Heaney, "Dylan the Durable?: On Dylan Thomas" (1992)
Cynthia Ozick, "What Henry James Knew" (1992)

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Foreword Elizabeth Coleman Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: The Monologue as Conversation Phillip Lopate Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
The Uncommon Reader George Steiner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Divination Frank Kerrnode Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
To the Tally of My Soul: Whitman's Image of Voice Harold Bloom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
The Politics of Modem Criticism Denis Donoghue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
The Making of a Critic Irving Howe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
The uses of Decadence: Wilde, Yeats. Joyce Richard Ellmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Long Work, Short Life Bernard Malamud Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
Literature and Belief: Three "Spiritual Exercises" Ben Belitt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Summations Saul Bellow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
Magic and Spells Hugh Kenner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
The Barber of Kasbeam: Nabokov on Cruelty Richard Rorty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
Collective Violence and Sacrifice in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar René Girard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Three in a Bed: Fiction, Morals, and Politics Nadine Gordimer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Dylan the Durable? On Dylan Thomas Seamus Heaney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
What Henry James Knew Cynthia Ozick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	276

Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 304

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Published: December 6, 2021
ISBN: 9780823296552