pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
Visit our new collection website www.collectionsforschool.co.uk
     
Email: Subscribe to news & offers:
Need assistance? Log In/Register


Item Details
Title: THE ORDERING MIRROR
READERS AND CONTEXTS
By: Phillip Lopate
Format: Hardback

List price: £49.00
Our price: £44.10
Discount:
10% off
You save: £4.90
ISBN 10: 0823215156
ISBN 13: 9780823215157
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-3 weeks.
 Delivery rates
Stock: Currently 0 available
Publisher: FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 1 January, 1993
Pages: 304
Description: A collection of lectures from leading writers and critics, including Nadine Gordimer ("Three in a Bed: Fiction, Morals and Politics"), Cynthia Ozick ("What Henry James Knew"), George Steiner ("The Uncommon Reader") and Seamus Heaney ("Dylan the Durable? On Dylan Thomas").
Synopsis: 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)Frank Kermode, "Divination" (1979)Harold Bloom, "To the Tally of My Soul: Whitman's Image of Voice" (1980)Denis Donoghue, "The Politics of Modern Criticism" (1981)Irving Howe, "The Making of a Critic" (1982)Richard Ellman, "The Uses of Decadence: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce" (1983)Bernard Malamud, "Long Work, Short Life" (1984)Ben Belitt, "Literature and Belief: Three 'Spiritual Exercises'" (1985)Saul Bellow, "Summations" (1987)Hugh Kenner, "Magics and Spells (about curses, charms, and riddles)" (1987)Richard Rorty, "The Barber of Kasbeam: Nabokov on Cruelty" (1988)Rene Girard, "Collective Violence and Sacrifice in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar" (1989)Nadine Gordimer, "Three in a Bed: Fiction, Morals and Politics" (1990)Seamus Heaney, "Dylan the Durable?: On Dylan Thomas" (1992)Cynthia Ozick, "What Henry James Knew" (1992)
Publication: US
Imprint: Fordham University Press
Returns: Non-returnable
Some other items by this author:
A HAZARD OF NEW FORTUNES (PB)
AGAINST JOIE DE VIVRE (PB)
ART OF THE PERSONAL ESSAY (PB)
BEING WITH CHILDREN (PB)
BRIDGE OF DREAMS (HB)
BRIDGE OF DREAMS (PB)
CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN ESSAY
ESSAYS OF ELIA (PB)
FUTURE IMPERFECT (PB)
GETTING PERSONAL (HB)
GLORIOUS AMERICAN ESSAY
GLORIOUS AMERICAN ESSAY (HB)
GOLDEN AGE OF THE AMERICAN ESSAY
IRRETRIEVABLE (PB)
LAST STANDS (PB)
LOST WATERFRONT (PB)
MOTHER''S TALE (HB)
MY AFFAIR WITH ART HOUSE CINEMA
MY AFFAIR WITH ART HOUSE CINEMA (HB)
NOTES ON SONTAG
NOTES ON SONTAG (HB)
PORTRAIT INSIDE MY HEAD (HB)
PORTRAIT INSIDE MY HEAD (PB)
REMOTE (PB)
SOUTH STREET
SOUTH STREET (HB)
SOUTH STREET (PB)
THE ANNOTATED EMERSON (HB)
THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE (BARNES & NOBLE CLASSICS SERIES)
THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE (BARNES & NOBLE CLASSICS SERIES) (PB)
THE PRINCE OF MINOR WRITERS (PB)
TO SHOW AND TO TELL (PB)
WRITERS AND THEIR NOTEBOOKS (HB)
WRITERS AND THEIR NOTEBOOKS (PB)
WRITING NEW YORK (PB)
YEAR AND A DAY

TOP SELLERS IN THIS CATEGORY
Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast (Paperback)
Penguin Books Ltd
Our Price : £2.19
more details
Meditations (Hardback)
Penguin Books Ltd
Our Price : £10.94
more details
Letters to a Young Poet (Paperback)
Penguin Books Ltd
Our Price : £2.19
more details
The Living Mountain (Paperback)
Canongate Books Ltd
Our Price : £7.29
more details
Bluets (Hardback)
Random House Children's Publishers UK
Our Price : £9.48
more details
BROWSE FOR BOOKS IN RELATED CATEGORIES
 LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND BIOGRAPHY
 literature: texts
 essays, journals, letters & other prose works


Information provided by www.pickabook.co.uk
SHOPPING BASKET
  
Your basket is empty
  Total Items: 0
 

NEW
Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr A celebratory, inclusive and educational exploration of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr for both children that celebrate and children who want to understand and appreciate their peers who do.
add to basket

Learning
That''s My Story!: Drama for Confidence, Communication and C... The ability to communicate is an essential life skill for all children, underpinning their confidence, personal and social wellbeing, and sense of self.
add to basket