The Ordering Mirror: Readers and ContextsFordham Univ Press, 1993 - 304 стор. 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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... mean con- sists in the critic always speaking about the ultimate problems of life , but in a tone which implies that he is only discussing pictures and books , only the inessential and petty elements of real life - and even then not the ...
... means not what it used to mean , namely , variae lec- tiones , conflicts of textual testimony , but rather the different ways in which various people read the same poem . My complaint is not that this matter is not worth the writer's ...
... means made clearer and narrower . But he will still have to divine . Some great diviners like to affirm that divination is a gift you are born with , that it cannot be taught . When he gave this lec- ture , George Steiner quoted A. E. ...
... means of its parts , and the parts by means of the whole . But this " circle " seems to imply that we can understand nothing - the whole is made up of parts we cannot understand until it exists , and we cannot see the whole without ...
... mean " snares , devices , tricks . " " If so : poor over - clever Boswell ; alas , poor over - knowing Johnson , " says Mr. Thorpe . To be truly sagacious you have to know when div- ination is not called for . Diviners had best be ...
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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 |
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