I. The Self Displayed. 1. From Parsonage to Podium. 2. Baseball: Random Connections. 3. Football: An Addict's Recollections and Observations. 4. The Rail Way of the World -- II. Writers Portrayed: Recollections. 5. Eric Voegelin. 6. Robert Penn Warren. 7. Theodore Roethke. 8. Malcolm Cowley as University Professor -- III. Literary Types and Problems Inspected: Shakespeare. 9. Farce: The Taming of the Shrew. 10. Romance: Cymbeline. 11. Timon in Context -- IV. Literary Types and Problems Inspected: Later Writers. 12. Good Guys and Bad Guys and What the Stage Does with Them: Dramatic Types. 13. The Novel: Ideas versus Drama in Hardy. 14. Short Story and Novella: Corrington's Tales. 15. Comic Prose Epic: Welty's Losing Battles. 16. Three Generations of English Studies: Impressions. 17. Post-Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow: An Aspect of the Humanistic Tongue -- V. Education Examined. 18. Semicentennial Retrospections: The Past as Perspective. 19. Back to Basics: Issues. 20. Humanistic, Humane, Human. 21. The Great-Teacher Myth. 22. Sabbatical Leaves: Pay for Play, or Pattern for American Life? 23. Citizenship, Imagination, and Novels
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Professor and the profession.
American literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism
English literature-- History and criticism
English philology-- Study and teaching (Higher)-- United States