The Ordering Mirror: Readers and ContextsIn 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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... imaginative letters . . . . Though the Lectureship specifies my name , along with that of William Troy , my former colleague and mentor , I consider the real custodian to be the total intellectual fellowship which I have shared since ...
... 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 immortality when he suggested that Falstaff died " babbling of green ...
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Contents
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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 |