The Ordering mirror : readers and contexts /
| Format: | Book |
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
1993.
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| Series: | Ben Belitt lectureship series.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The monologue as conversation / Phillip Lopate
- The uncommon reader / George Steiner
- Divination / Frank Kermode
- To the tally of my soul: Whitman's image of voice / Harold Bloom
- The politics of modern criticism / Denis Donoghue
- The making of a critic / Irving Howe
- The uses of decadence: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce / Richard Ellmann
- Long walk, short life / Bernard Melamud
- Literature and belief: Three "spiritual exercises" / Ben Belitt
- Summations / Saul Bellow
- Magic and spells / Hugh Kenner
- The barber of Kasbeam: Nabokov on cruelty / Richard Rorty
- Collective violence and sacrifice in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar / Rene Girard
- Three in a bed: fiction, morals, and politics / Nadine Gordimer
- Dylan the durable? On Dylan Thomas / Seamus Heaney
- What Henry James knew / Cynthia Ozick.