TY - BOOK TI - The Ordering mirror: readers and contexts : the Ben Belitt lectures at Bennington College SN - 0823215156 AV - PS121 .O73 1993 U1 - 810.9 20 PY - 1993/// CY - New York PB - Fordham University Press KW - American literature KW - History and criticism KW - English literature N1 - Collection of 15 essays previously published, 1978-1992, as the Ben Belitt Lectureship series; 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0730/93002065-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0734/93002065-b.html UR - http://www.archive.org/details/orderingmirrorre00newy UR - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL1394792M ER -