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Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology : Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture / Walter J. Ong.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2013]Copyright date: 2013Description: 1 online resource (362 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780801466335
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808/.008
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Rhetoric and the Origins of Consciousness -- 2. Oral Residue in Tudor Prose Style -- 3. Tudor Writings on Rhetoric, Poetic, and Literary Theory -- 4. Memory as Art -- 5. Latin Language Study as a Renaissance Puberty Rite -- 6. Ramist Classroom Procedure and the Nature of Reality -- 7. Ramist Method and the Commercial Mind -- 8. Swift on the Mind: Satire in a Closed Field -- 9. Psyche and the Geometers: Associationist Critical Theory -- 10. J. S. Mill’s Pariah Poet -- 11. Romantic Difference and the Poetics of Technology -- 12. The Literate Orality of Popular Culture Today -- 13. Crisis and Understanding in the Humanities -- Index
Summary: This collection of essays by Walter J. Ong focuses on the complex and dynamic relationship between verbal performance and cultural evolution. By studying the history of rhetoric and related arts from classical antiquity through the age of romanticism to the modern period, Ong both illuminates the past and helps explain late-twentieth-century modes of expression.Elegantly written and wide ranging, Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology traces the evolution of devices used to store, retrieve, and communicate knowledge. Ong discusses diverse topics including memory as art, associationist critical theory, the close relationship between romanticism and technology, and the popular culture of the 1970s. This book also contains essays about Tudor writings in English on rhetoric and literary theory, the study of Latin as a Renaissance puberty rite, Ramism in the classroom and in commerce, Jonathan Swift's notion of the mind, and John Stuart Mill's politics.

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Rhetoric and the Origins of Consciousness -- 2. Oral Residue in Tudor Prose Style -- 3. Tudor Writings on Rhetoric, Poetic, and Literary Theory -- 4. Memory as Art -- 5. Latin Language Study as a Renaissance Puberty Rite -- 6. Ramist Classroom Procedure and the Nature of Reality -- 7. Ramist Method and the Commercial Mind -- 8. Swift on the Mind: Satire in a Closed Field -- 9. Psyche and the Geometers: Associationist Critical Theory -- 10. J. S. Mill’s Pariah Poet -- 11. Romantic Difference and the Poetics of Technology -- 12. The Literate Orality of Popular Culture Today -- 13. Crisis and Understanding in the Humanities -- Index

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This collection of essays by Walter J. Ong focuses on the complex and dynamic relationship between verbal performance and cultural evolution. By studying the history of rhetoric and related arts from classical antiquity through the age of romanticism to the modern period, Ong both illuminates the past and helps explain late-twentieth-century modes of expression.Elegantly written and wide ranging, Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology traces the evolution of devices used to store, retrieve, and communicate knowledge. Ong discusses diverse topics including memory as art, associationist critical theory, the close relationship between romanticism and technology, and the popular culture of the 1970s. This book also contains essays about Tudor writings in English on rhetoric and literary theory, the study of Latin as a Renaissance puberty rite, Ramism in the classroom and in commerce, Jonathan Swift's notion of the mind, and John Stuart Mill's politics.

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In English.

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