Interfaces of the Word : Studies in the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture / Walter J. Ong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ong, Walter J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Consciousness.

Civilization--Philosophy.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Interfaces of the World, Walter J. Ong explores the effects on consciousness of the word as it moves through oral to written to print and electronic culture.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

I. CLEAVAGE AND GROWTH

1. Transformations of the Word and Alienation

II. THE SEQUESTRATION OF VOICE

2. The Writer's Audience Is Always a Fiction

3. Media Transformation: The Talked Book

4. African Talking Drums and Oral Noetics

5. "I See What You Say": Sense Analogues for Intellect

III. CLOSURE AND PRINT

6. Typographic Rhapsody: Ravisius Textor, Zwinger, and Shakespeare

7. From Epithet to Logic: Miltonic Epic and the Closure of Existence

8. The Poem as a Closed Field: The Once New Criticism and the Nature of Literature

9. Maranatha: Death and Life in the Text of the Book

10. From Mimesis to Irony: Writing and Print as Integuments of Voice

IV. PRESENT AND FUTURE

11. Voice and the Opening of Closed Systems

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Feb. 24, 2017)

ISBN:

9780801466304

080146630X

9780801466311

0801466318

OCLC:

297814569