Orality and Literacy: 30th Anniversary Edition by Walter J. Ong (English) Paperb

Description: Orality and Literacy by Walter J. Ong 3rd edition. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Walter J. Ongs classic work provides a fascinating insight into the social effects of oral, written, printed and electronic technologies, and their impact on philosophical, theological, scientific and literary thought.This thirtieth anniversary edition – coinciding with Ongs centenary year – reproduces his best-known and most influential book in full and brings it up to date with two new exploratory essays by cultural writer and critic John Hartley. Hartley provides: A scene-setting chapter that situates Ongs work within the historical and disciplinary context of post-war Americanism and the rise of communication and media studies; A closing chapter that follows up Ongs work on orality and literacy in relation to evolving media forms, with a discussion of recent criticisms of Ongs approach, and an assessment of his concept of the evolution of consciousness; Extensive references to recent scholarship on orality, literacy and the study of knowledge technologies, tracing changes in how we know what we know.These illuminating essays contextualize Ong within recent intellectual history, and display his works continuing force in the ongoing study of the relationship between literature and the media, as well as that of psychology, education and sociological thought. Notes 3rd edition. Author Biography Walter J. Ong (30 November 1912 – 12 August 2003) was University Professor Emeritus at Saint Louis University, USA, where he was previously Professor of English and Professor of Humanities in Psychiatry. His many publications have been highly influential for studies in the evolution of consciousness.John Hartley is an educator, author, researcher and commentator on the history and cultural impact of television, journalism, popular media and creative industries. He is Professor of Cultural Science and Director of the Centre for Culture & Technology at Curtin University, Western Australia. Table of Contents John Hartley: Before Ongism: "To become what we want to be, we have to decide what we were" Orality & Literacy: The Technologization Of The Word Introduction Part 1: The orality of language 1. The literate mind and the oral past 2. Did you say oral literature? Part 2: The modern discovery of primary oral cultures 1. Early awareness of oral tradition 2. The Homeric question 3. Milman Parrys discovery 4. Consequent and related work Part 3: Some psychodynamics of orality 1. Sounded word as power and action 2. You know what you can recall: mnemonics and formulas 3. Further characteristics of orally based thought and expression 4. Additive rather than subordinative 5. Aggregative rather than analytic 6. Redundant or copious 7. Conservative or traditionalist 8. Close to the human lifeworld 9. Agonistically toned 10. Empathetic and participatory rather than objectively distanced 11. Homeostatic 12. Situational rather than abstract 13. Oral memorization 14. Verbomotor lifestyle 15. The noetic role of heroic heavy gures and of the bizarre 16. The interiority of sound 17. Orality, community and the sacral 18. Words are not signs Part 4: Writing restructures consciousness 1. The new world of autonomous discourse 2. Plato, writing and computers 3. Writing is a technology 4. What is writing or script? 5. Many scripts but only one alphabet 6. The onset of literacy 7. From memory to written records 8. Some dynamics of textuality 9. Distance, precision, grapholects and magnavocabularies 10. Interactions: rhetoric and the places 11. Interactions: learned languages 12. Tenaciousness of orality Part 5: Print, space and closure 1. Hearing-dominance yields to sight-dominance 2. Space and meaning 3. Indexes 4. Books, contents and labels 5. Meaningful surface 6. Typographic space 7. More diffuse effects 8. Print and closure: intertextuality 9. Post-typography: electronics Part 6: Oral memory, the story line and characterization 1. The primacy of the story line 2. Narrative and oral cultures 3. Oral memory and the story line 4. Closure of plot: travelogue to detective story 5. The round character, writing and print Part 7: Some theorems 1. Literary history 2. New Criticism and Formalism 3. Structuralism 4. Textualists and deconstructionists 5. Speech-act and reader-response theory 6. Social sciences, philosophy, biblical studies 7. Orality, writing and being human 8. Media versus human communication 9. The inward turn: consciousness and the text John Hartley: After Ongism: The Evolution of Networked Intelligence Details ISBN0415538386 Author Walter J. Ong Series New Accents Language English ISBN-10 0415538386 ISBN-13 9780415538381 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2012 Publication Date 2012-09-27 Imprint Routledge Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Replaces 9780415281294 Short Title ORALITY & LITERACY REV/E 3/E Edition 3rd Subtitle 30th Anniversary Edition Illustrations 1 Halftones, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white UK Release Date 2012-09-27 AU Release Date 2012-09-27 NZ Release Date 2012-09-27 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Edition Description 3rd edition Alternative 9780415538374 DEWEY 306.46 Audience Undergraduate Pages 264 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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