| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
The ordering mirror/ introduction by Phillip Lopate. |
| Reminder of title: |
readers and contexts : the Ben Belitt lectures at Bennington College / |
| Published: |
New York :Fordham University Press, : 1993., |
| Description: |
xviii, 304 p. ;24 cm. |
| Notes: |
Collection of 15 essays previously published, 1978-1992, as the Ben Belitt Lectureship series. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
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. |
| Subject: |
American literature - History and criticism. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=16376An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0585195447 (electronic bk.) |