The ghost on the ramparts, and other essays in the humanities
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Athens,
University of Georgia Press
[1973]
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Table of Contents:
- [1.] In the front office: The ghost on the ramparts: a chairman on the chairmanship
- [2.] In the classroom: reading, writing, teaching: Literature and growing up: the ends of literary study
- The full man and the fullness thereof: printed page versus sound and light
- Except he come to composition
- The cult of personality: hell's spells
- Teaching careers and graduate schools: programs and postures
- [3.] At lectern, typewriter, and conference table: a problem of style: Freedom from speech: vigilance revisited
- Verbal traffic and moral freight: gown and town
- Clichés and anticlichés: critics and others
- [4.] In the study: historical and critical approaches: The antiquarians and the up-to-date: attitudes toward history
- Historian and critic: the types
- [5.] At the bottom of everything: humanities: Outside the laws: the humanities versus the sciences
- Humanisticism and melodrama: styles in combat
- Humanistic education as comedy: a funambulist's analogy.