{"product_id":"the-ordering-mirror-phillip-lopate-9780823215157","title":"The Ordering Mirror: Readers and Contexts","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe volume includes: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGeorge Steiner, \"The Uncommon Reader\" (1978)\u003cbr\u003eFrank Kermode, \"Divination\" (1979)\u003cbr\u003eHarold Bloom, \"To the Tally of My Soul: Whitman's Image of Voice\" (1980)\u003cbr\u003eDenis Donoghue, \"The Politics of Modern Criticism\" (1981)\u003cbr\u003eIrving Howe, \"The Making of a Critic\" (1982)\u003cbr\u003eRichard Ellman, \"The Uses of Decadence: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce\" (1983)\u003cbr\u003eBernard Malamud, \"Long Work, Short Life\" (1984)\u003cbr\u003eBen Belitt, \"Literature and Belief: Three 'Spiritual Exercises'\" (1985)\u003cbr\u003eSaul Bellow, \"Summations\" (1987)\u003cbr\u003eHugh Kenner, \"Magics and Spells (about curses, charms, and riddles)\" (1987)\u003cbr\u003eRichard Rorty, \"The Barber of Kasbeam: Nabokov on Cruelty\" (1988)\u003cbr\u003eRene Girard, \"Collective Violence and Sacrifice in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar\" (1989)\u003cbr\u003eNadine Gordimer, \"Three in a Bed: Fiction, Morals and Politics\" (1990)\u003cbr\u003eSeamus Heaney, \"Dylan the Durable?: On Dylan Thomas\" (1992)\u003cbr\u003eCynthia Ozick, \"What Henry James Knew\" (1992)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Phillip Lopate\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823215156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823215157\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.29h x 6.28w x 1.14d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/27\/1993","brand":"Phillip Lopate","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47202189213951,"sku":"9780823215157","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4d77069c-01f1-4738-91ab-66cc6621e4ef.jpg?v=1756819881","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-ordering-mirror-phillip-lopate-9780823215157","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}