Title: The Written word :
Authors: Baumann, Gerd,
Date: 1986
Publisher: Clarendon Press ;
Physical description: x, 197 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: Z
Contents: Writing is a technology that restructures thought / by Walter J. Ong -- Forms of writing in the ancient Mediterranean world / by Anna Morpurgo Davies -- Scripture and tradition in Judaism / by Geza Vermes -- The meaning of literacy in Early Modern England / by Keith Thomas -- Literacy and cultural identity in the Horn of Africa / by Ioan Lewis -- New technologies in printing and publishing / by Adam Hodgkin -- On audio and visual technologies / by Anthony Smith.
Notes: "This book contains the revised versions of ... lectures delivered in the 1985 series entitled Literacy and the written word"--Pref.
Subject headings (LCSH): Books and reading.; Literacy; Publishers and publishing.; Writing.