The Ordering Mirror: Readers and ContextsFordham Univ Press, 1993 - 304 pàgines 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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... perhaps set the tone with his very moving invocation of the old - fashioned ritual of reading , presenting the " ceremonious encounter between reader and book " as a kind of sacrament . Denis Donoghue , citing the Book of John ...
... perhaps the most frankly personal in his assessment of how he became a literary critic ( first , he says , by copying the styles of Orwell , Wilson , Rahv , and Trilling ! ) , and the most candid about questions of status and ...
... Perhaps it is in the nature of giving an important lit- erary address to invite the audience under the canopy of quality : " we , " the privileged few , surrounded by the howling barbarians of popular culture who disdain our ...
... perhaps querulous dis- course or disputation with the text . Annotations , often numbered , will tend to be of a more formal , collaborative character . They will , where possible , be made at the bottom of the page . They will elu ...
... perhaps , an additional icon in the articulation of human mor- tality and textual survival ; the possible interplay ( I am not at all cer- tain here ) between the quill and the sand in the hourglass , sand being used to dry ink on the ...
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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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Such Rare Citings: The Prose Poem in English Literature Nikki Santilli Previsualització limitada - 2002 |
Such Rare Citings: The Prose Poem in English Literature Nikki Santilli Visualització de fragments - 2002 |