Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology : : Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture / / Walter J. Ong.

This collection of essays by Walter J. Ong focuses on the complex and dynamic relationship between verbal performance and cultural evolution. By studying the history of rhetoric and related arts from classical antiquity through the age of romanticism to the modern period, Ong both illuminates the pa...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (362 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • 1. Rhetoric and the Origins of Consciousness
  • 2. Oral Residue in Tudor Prose Style
  • 3. Tudor Writings on Rhetoric, Poetic, and Literary Theory
  • 4. Memory as Art
  • 5. Latin Language Study as a Renaissance Puberty Rite
  • 6. Ramist Classroom Procedure and the Nature of Reality
  • 7. Ramist Method and the Commercial Mind
  • 8. Swift on the Mind: Satire in a Closed Field
  • 9. Psyche and the Geometers: Associationist Critical Theory
  • 10. J. S. Mill’s Pariah Poet
  • 11. Romantic Difference and the Poetics of Technology
  • 12. The Literate Orality of Popular Culture Today
  • 13. Crisis and Understanding in the Humanities
  • Index