Orality and Literacy
30th Anniversary Edition (New Accents)
Walter J. Ong
Explore the fascinating social effects of oral, written, printed, and electronic technologies and their impact on philosophy, theology, science, and literature with this classic work by Walter J. Ong. This thirtieth anniversary edition also includes two new exploratory essays by John Hartley, which contextualize Ong's work within recent intellectual history and display its continuing force in the ongoing study of the relationship between literature and media, psychology, education, and sociological thought.
Publish Date
2002-07-21T00:00:00.000Z
2002-07-21T00:00:00.000Z
first published in 1982
Goodreads Rating
4.12
ISBN
9780415281294
Recommendations
2
Recommendations
2021-02-16T04:45:43.000Z
This is a wonderful book, and much more cogent than the McLuhan version ('Gutenberg Galaxy').
Written by a Jesuit priest no less....but he captured the fundamental oral/textual divide like nothing else. – source2020-12-19T00:45:55.000Z
@theasnow @maiagould @scarschwartz It is a book that has stuck with me since undergraduate reading list at @BrynMawrCollege #anthrogeek – source