studies in the interaction of expression and culture,
by Walter J. Ong.
Ithaca,
Cornell University Press
[1971]
x, 348 p.
22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Rhetoric and the origins of consciousness -- Oral residue in Tudor prose style -- Tudor writings on rhetoric, poetic, and literary theory -- Memory as art -- Latin language study as a Renaissance puberty rite -- Ramist classroom procedure and the nature of reality -- Ramist method and the commercial mind -- Swift on the mind: satire in a closed field -- Psyche and the geometers: associationist critical theory -- J.S. Mill's pariah poet -- Romantic differences and the poetics of technology -- The literate orality of popular culture today -- Crisis and understanding in the humanities.