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Introduction | ||
I | On a Pragmatic View of Life | |
Toward a Fateful Serenity | 3 | |
II | On the Two Ways of Knowing: History and Science | |
The Search for Truths | 15 | |
History as Counter-Method and Anti-Abstraction | 19 | |
The Imagination of the Real | 26 | |
Cultural History: A Synthesis | 27 | |
Alfred North Whitehead | 34 | |
William James: The Mind as Artist | 35 | |
Thomas Beddoes, M.D. | 39 | |
Science and Scientism | 49 | |
Myths for Materialists | 69 | |
III | On What Critics Argue About | |
Criticism: An Art or a Craft? | 79 | |
The Scholar-Critic | 87 | |
James Agate and His Nine Egos | 92 | |
The Grand Pretense | 103 | |
On Sentimentality | 107 | |
Samuel Butler | 108 | |
On Romanticism | 114 | |
Dorothy Sayers | 116 | |
John Jay Chapman | 120 | |
Remembering Lionel Trilling | 129 | |
IV | On Language and Style | |
Rhetoric - What It Is; Why Needed | 149 | |
The Retort Circumstantial | 156 | |
The Necessity of a Common Tongue | 160 | |
The Word "Man" | 168 | |
On Biography | 172 | |
Venus at Large: Sexuality and the Limits of Literature | 175 | |
Onoma-Onomato-Onomatwaddle | 186 | |
V | On Some Classic | |
Swift, or Man's Capacity for Reason | 193 | |
Why Diderot? | 203 | |
William Hazlitt | 213 | |
How the Romantics Invented Shakespeare | 216 | |
Bernard Shaw | 231 | |
Goethe's Faust | 235 | |
When the Orient Was New: Byron, Kinglake, and Flaubert | 250 | |
The Permanence of Oscar Wilde | 272 | |
Bagehot as Historian | 284 | |
Lincoln the Literary Artist | 293 | |
The Reign of William and Henry | 304 | |
VI | On Music and Design | |
Why Opera? | 323 | |
Is Music Unspeakable? | 324 | |
Music for Europe: A Travers Chants | 337 | |
To Praise Varese | 354 | |
Delacroix | 358 | |
Visual Evidence of a New Age | 362 | |
Museum Piece 1967 | 366 | |
Why Art Must Be Challenged | 374 | |
VII | On Teaching and Learning | |
The Art of Making Teachers | 387 | |
Where the Educational Nonsense Comes From | 391 | |
Occupational Disease: Verbal Inflation | 392 | |
The Centrality of Reading | 396 | |
The Tyranny of Testing | 401 | |
History for Beginners | 404 | |
Of What Use the Classics Today? | 412 | |
The University's Primary Task | 423 | |
The Scholar Is an Institution | 424 | |
Exeunt the Humanities | 426 | |
VIII | On America Past and Present | |
On Baseball | 437 | |
Race: Fact or Fiction? | 443 | |
Thoreau the Thorough Impressionist | 447 | |
The Railroad | 465 | |
The Great Switch | 470 | |
Is Democratic Theory for Export? | 473 | |
Administering and the Law | 488 | |
The Three Enemies of Intellect | 492 | |
An American Commencement | 509 | |
IX | On France and the French | |
Paris in 1830 | 519 | |
Food for the NRF | 539 | |
French and Its Vagaries | 545 | |
Flaubert's Dictionary of Accepted Ideas | 553 | |
X | On Crime, True and Make-Believe | |
The Aesthetics of the Criminous | 563 | |
Rex Stout | 564 | |
A Catalogue of Crime | 567 | |
Why Read Crime Fiction? | 571 | |
The Place and Point of "True Crime" | 578 | |
Meditations on the Literature of Spying | 581 | |
XI | A Miscellany | |
Definitions | 591 | |
Jottings | 593 | |
Clerihews | 595 | |
Ars Poetica | 597 | |
Bibliography | 599 | |
Index of Names | 605 |
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