What do you think, Mr. Ramirez? : the American Revolution in education /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Harpham, Geoffrey Galt, 1946- (Author)
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Subjects:	Education, Humanistic > United States. Education, Humanistic > United States > History. Education, Higher > United States. Education > United States > Philosophy. English literature > Study and teaching (Higher) > United States. English literature > Study and teaching (Higher) > United States > History > 20th century. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

The American revolution in education; Mr. Ramirez comes to America; Teaching the intangibles: general education in postwar America; Limitations of the whole man; Breaking the stranglehold of the present; James B. Conant, American radical
t Rights of the pryvat spyrit: from dissent to interpretation
From separation to society
From faith to fiction
From origin to originalism
From eloquence to abolition
From America to English
The peculiar opportunities of English; English and wisdom; The meaning of literature; The birth of criticism from the spirit of compromise; I.A. Richards and the emergence of an American humanities; Turning science into the humanities: the New Criticism; The persistence of intention
Postscript : in praise of depth.