Interfaces of the word studies in the evolution of consciousness and culture /

Ong, Walter J.

Interfaces of the word studies in the evolution of consciousness and culture / Walter J. Ong. - Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, (c)1977. - 1 online resource (352 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cleavage and growth -- -- Transformations of the word and alienation -- The sequestration of voice -- -- The writer's audience is always a fiction -- Media transformation: the talked book -- African talking drums and oral noetics -- "I see what you say": sense analogues for intellect -- Closure and print -- -- Typographic rhapsody: Ravisius Textor, Zwinger, and Shakespeare -- From epithet to logic: Miltonic epic and the closure of existence -- The poem as a closed field: the once new criticism and the nature of literature -- Maranatha: death and life in the text of the book -- From mimesis to irony: writing and print as integuments of voice -- Present and future -- -- Voice and the opening of closed systems.




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Language and languages--Philosophy.
Consciousness.
Civilization--Philosophy.


Electronic Books.

P106 / .I584 1977