Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word
by:
Walter J Ong (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781136243738 (1136243739)
Publish date: November 27th 2012
Publisher: Routledge
Pages no: 264
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...
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