"The Ghost on the Ramparts" presents fourteen of R. B. Heilman's
essays on the teaching of English and the profession of the
humanities. These essays deal with such diverse topics as
administrative ways and means, pedagogical shibboleths and
heresies, uses and abuses of literacy, cliches of style, moot
issues of history and criticism, and above all the nature of the
humanities and their continuing significance. The persuasive
discussions of all these subjects reflect the author's wide
professional experience, his wit and wisdom, and his superb sense
of style.
The chairman of a distinguished English department for over
twenty years, Heilman well knew the ins and outs of administration.
He considers not only the practical problems of maintaining a large
department but also the more complex matters involving a chairman's
attitude toward deans, toward colleagues of many kinds, and toward
oneself as a committed teacher and administrator. Also a literary
critic of established reputation, Heilman's explicative side
appears in most of these essays as he provides illustrative
examples from many different sources while discussing the nature of
history and criticism in the humanities.
The unity of these essays is no less impressive than the mind of
their maker, who instances a remarkable capacity for seeing life in
the humanities steadily and whole.
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