Learning from Language: Symmetry, Asymmetry, and Literary Humanism

Acknowledgments

ix I appreciate the excellent advice and direction of my editors at the University of Pittsburgh Press, and also that of the wise and exacting scholarly consultants engaged by them. W. Barnes Tatum, professor of Greek and New Testament at Greensboro College, read portions of the manuscript directly relevant to his expertise, offering important suggestions, corrections , and encouragements. Dr. Laurie White, an astute rhetorician and literary humanist, discussed with me on many occasions this book’s ideas and arguments, reading and commenting on a good deal of it in manuscript form. My colleagues and advanced students in language, rhetoric, and literary theory at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro provided an indispensable community of conversation. I am grateful to them all. Acknowledgments x xi Learning from Language xii ...