Walter J. Ong

Orality and Literacy

30th Anniversary Edition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

3rd edition.

Produktdetails

• New Accents
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 3 ed
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 131mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 284g
• ISBN-13: 9780415538381
• ISBN-10: 0415538386
• Artikelnr.: 35204315

Autorenporträt

Walter J. Ong (30 November 1912 - 12 August 2003) was University Professor Emeritus at Saint Louis University, USA, where he was previously Professor of English and Professor of Humanities in Psychiatry. His many publications have been highly influential for studies in the evolution of consciousness. John Hartley is an educator, author, researcher and commentator on the history and cultural impact of television, journalism, popular media and creative industries. He is Professor of Cultural Science and Director of the Centre for Culture & Technology at Curtin University, Western Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

John Hartley: Before Ongism: "To become what we want to be, we have to
decide what we were" Orality & Literacy: The Technologization Of The Word
Introduction Part 1: The orality of language 1. The literate mind and the
oral past 2. Did you say 'oral literature'? Part 2: The modern discovery of
primary oral cultures 1. Early awareness of oral tradition 2. The Homeric
question 3. Milman Parry's discovery 4. Consequent and related work Part 3:
Some psychodynamics of orality 1. Sounded word as power and action 2. You
know what you can recall: mnemonics and formulas 3. Further characteristics
of orally based thought and expression 4. Additive rather than
subordinative 5. Aggregative rather than analytic 6. Redundant or 'copious'
7. Conservative or traditionalist 8. Close to the human lifeworld 9.
Agonistically toned 10. Empathetic and participatory rather than
objectively distanced 11. Homeostatic 12. Situational rather than abstract
13. Oral memorization 14. Verbomotor lifestyle 15. The noetic role of
heroic 'heavy' ¿gures and of the bizarre 16. The interiority of sound 17.
Orality, community and the sacral 18. Words are not signs Part 4: Writing
restructures consciousness 1. The new world of autonomous discourse 2.
Plato, writing and computers 3. Writing is a technology 4. What is
'writing' or 'script'? 5. Many scripts but only one alphabet 6. The onset
of literacy 7. From memory to written records 8. Some dynamics of
textuality 9. Distance, precision, grapholects and magnavocabularies 10.
Interactions: rhetoric and the places 11. Interactions: learned languages
12. Tenaciousness of orality Part 5: Print, space and closure 1.
Hearing-dominance yields to sight-dominance 2. Space and meaning 3. Indexes
4. Books, contents and labels 5. Meaningful surface 6. Typographic space 7.
More diffuse effects 8. Print and closure: intertextuality 9.
Post-typography: electronics Part 6: Oral memory, the story line and
characterization 1. The primacy of the story line 2. Narrative and oral
cultures 3. Oral memory and the story line 4. Closure of plot: travelogue
to detective story 5. The 'round' character, writing and print Part 7: Some
theorems 1. Literary history 2. New Criticism and Formalism 3.
Structuralism 4. Textualists and deconstructionists 5. Speech-act and
reader-response theory 6. Social sciences, philosophy, biblical studies 7.
Orality, writing and being human 8. 'Media' versus human communication 9.
The inward turn: consciousness and the text John Hartley: After Ongism: The
Evolution of Networked Intelligence