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Orality and Literacy

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Routledge, May 23, 2002 - Literary Criticism - 216 pages

This classic work explores the vast differences between oral and literate cultures offering a very clear account of the intellectual, literary and social effects of writing, print and electronic technology.

In the course of his study, Walter J. Ong offers fascinating insights into oral genres across the globe and through time, and examines the rise of abstract philosophical and scientific thinking. He considers the impact of orality-literacy studies not only on literary criticism and theory but on our very understanding of what it is to be a human being, conscious of self and other.

This is a book no reader, writer or speaker should be without.

  

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Review: Orality and Literacy

User Review  - Plamen Miltenoff - Goodreads

p. 9 human beings in primary oral cultures, those untouched by writing in any form, learn a great deal and possess an practice great wisdom, but they do not "study." they learn by apprenticeship ... Read full review

Review: Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word

User Review  - Sara - Goodreads

Okay, so this is a challenging read and was actually one of my college textbooks, but it taught me invaluable things about: the nature of communication, including interaction between people, and how ... Read full review

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Contents

INTRODUCTION
1
1 THE ORALITY OF LANGUAGE
5
2 THE MODERN DISCOVERY OF PRIMARY ORAL CULTURES
17
3 SOME PSYCHODYNAMICS OF ORALITY
31
4 WRITING RESTRUCTURES CONSCIOUSNESS
77
5 PRINT SPACE AND CLOSURE
115
6 ORAL MEMORY THE STORY LINE AND CHARACTERIZATION
137
7 SOMETHEOREMS
153
BIBLIOGRAPHY
177
INDEX
193
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About the author (2002)

Walter J. Ong is 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 the consciousness.

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