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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462154303321

Autore

Ong Walter J.

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©1977

ISBN

0-8014-6630-X

0-8014-6631-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Disciplina

401

Soggetti

Language and languages - Philosophy

Consciousness

Civilization - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.