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

• Autore: Ong Walter J.
• Pubblicazione: Ithaca, N.Y. : , : Cornell University Press, , [2012]; ©1977
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 p.)
• Disciplina: 401
• Soggetto topico: Language and languages - Philosophy; Consciousness; Civilization - Philosophy
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Interfaces of the Word
• ISBN: 0-8014-6630-X; 0-8014-6631-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818022303321
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