studies in the evolution of consciousness and culture /
First Statement of Responsibility
Walter J. Ong.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Ithaca, N.Y. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Cornell University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1977.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
352 p. ;
Dimensions
23 cm.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
1. Cleavage and growth: Transformations of the word and alienation -- 2. The sequestration of voice: The writer's audience is always a fiction -- Media transformation: the talked book -- African talking drums and oral noetics -- "I see what you say": sense analogues for intellect -- 3. Closure and print: Typographic rhapsody: Ravisius Textor, Zwinger, and Shakespeare -- From epithet to logic: Miltonic epic and the closure of existence -- The poem as a closed field: the once new criticism and the nature of literature -- Maranatha: death and life in the text of the book -- From mimesis to irony: writing and print as integuments of voice -- 4. Present and future: Voice and the opening of closed systems.