Time, memory, and the verbal arts
Subtitle: essays on the thought of Walter Ong
By: edited by Dennis L. Weeks and Jane Hoogestraat.
Contributors: Weeks, Dennis L., 1948-; Hoogestraat, Jane Susan, 1959-
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Selinsgrove
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Ong, Walter J.; Oral communication.; Written communication.
Description: Walter Ong pioneered the study of how orality and literacy mutually enrich each other in the evolution of human consciousness, arguing that verbal communication moves from orality to literacy and on to what he has termed the "secondary orality" of radio and television. The original essays in this volume explore the implications of Ong's work across the diverse fields of cultural history, literary theory, theology, philosophy, and anthropology.

These scholars maintain that Ong's view of orality not only changes our readings of ancient and medieval texts, but that it also changes our understanding of the differing epistemologies of oral and literate cultures and of the coexistence of the oral and literate within a given culture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.