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The Ordering Mirror: Readers and Contexts
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."
Book Details
- Publisher: Fordham University Press
- Publish Date: Jan 1st, 1993
- Pages: 304
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.29in - 6.28in - 1.14in - 1.57lb
- EAN: 9780823215157
- Categories: • American - General
About the Author
Lopate, Phillip: - Phillip Lopate, a Brooklyn native, has written three personal essay collections--Bachelorhood, Against Joie de Vivre, and Portrait of My Body; two novels, Confessions of Summer and The Rug Merchant; two poetry collections; a collection of his movie criticism, Totally Tenderly Tragically; and an urbanist meditation, Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan. Lopate also has edited several anthologies, including The Art of the Personal Essay and Writing New York. His essays, fiction, poetry, film, and architectural criticism have appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Essays (1987), several Pushcart Prize annuals, The Paris Review, Harper's, Vogue, Esquire, Threepenny Review, the New York Times, Preservation, Cite, Metropolis, and many other periodicals and anthologies. Lopate has also taught creative writing and literature at Fordham University, Cooper Union, the University of Houston, and New York University. He is a Professor at Columbia University, where he directs the nonfiction concentration in the graduate writing program.
Praise for this book
"Each of the 14 essays in this collection was originally presented at Bennington College's Ben Belitt lectures series which was founded in 1978 to honor poet, critic and Bennington teacher Belitt. Scholarly in tone, the pieces cover a wide range of literary topics, including an article by the late Irving Howe on becoming a literary critic; a discussion by Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer on the relationship between politics and fiction; an offering by Harold Bloom on the sexual imagery in Walt Whitman's poetry and Belitt's own lecture on literature and religious belief. As Lopate ( Bachelorhood: Tales of the Metropolis ) points out in his introduction, the selections, although written by outstanding authors and critics, lack ethnic variety and include only two essays by women. The collection will be of interest primarily to serious students of literature.-- "--Publishers Weekly"