Interfaces of the Word : : Studies in the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture /

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

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Drawing on a wide range of disciplines—linguistics, phenomenological analysis, cultural anthropology, media studies, and intellectual history—Walter J. Ong offers a reasoned and sophisticated view of human consciousness different in many respects from that of structuralism. The essays in Interfaces...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Ong, Walter J.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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

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