Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word
by:
Walter J. Ong (author)
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...
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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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780415281294 (0415281296)
Publish date: 2002-07-19
Publisher: Routledge
Pages no: 216
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
History,
Academic,
Humanities,
Language,
Science,
Technology,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Philosophy,
Anthropology,
Theory
A very thought-provoking book for me. Not a quick or an easy read, but worth the effort. Really makes me realize how much our thinking and worldview is affected by print literacy. I also don't recall any discussion in my literature of how reading the Odyssey, Socrates, etc. were such a different exp...