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Orality and literacy : the technologizing of the word /
Walter J. Ong's classic work provides a fascinating insight into the social effects of oral, written, printed and electronic technologies, and their impact on philosophical, theological, scientific and literary thought. This thirtieth anniversary edition - coinciding with Ong's centenary y...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| Edición: | 3rd ed. |
| Colección: | New Accents.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1 The orality of language ; The literate mind and the oral past ; Did you say 'oral literature'?
- 2 The modern discovery of primary oral cultures ; Early awareness of oral tradition ; The Homeric question ; Milman Parry's discovery ; Consequent and related work
- 3 Some psychodynamics of orality ; Sounded word as power and action ; You know what you can recall: mnemonics and formulas ; Further characteristics of orally based thought and expression ; (i) Additive rather than subordinative ; (ii) Aggregative rather than analytic ; (iii) Redundant or 'copious' ; (iv) Conservative or traditionalist ; (v) Close to the human iifeworld ; (vi) Agonistically toned ; (vii) Empathetic and participatory rather than objectively distanced ; (viii) Homeostatic ; (ix) Situational rather than abstract ; Oral memorization ; Verbomotor lifestyle ; The noetic role of heroic 'heavy' figures and of the bizarre ; The interiority of sound ; Orality, community and the sacral ; Words are not signs.
- 4 Writing restructures consciousness ; The new world of autonomous discourse ; Plato, writing and computers ; Writing is a technology ; What is 'writing' or 'script'? ; Many scripts but only one alphabet ; The onset of literacy ; From memory to written records ; Some dynamics of textuality ; Distance, precision, grapholects and magnavocabularies ; Interactions: rhetoric and the places ; Interactions: learned languages ; Tenaciousness of orality
- 5 Print, space and closure ; Hearing-dominance yields to sight-dominance ; Space and meaning ; (i) Indexes ; (ii) Books, contents and labels ; (iii) Meaningful surface ; (iv) Typographic space ; More diffuse effects ; Print and closure: intertextuality ; Post-typography: electronics
- 6 Oral memory, the story line and characterization ; The primacy of the story line ; Narrative and oral cultures ; Oral memory and the story line ; Closure of plot: travelogue to detective story ; The 'round' character, writing and print
- 7 Some theorems ; Literary history ; New Criticism and Formalism ; Structuralism ; Textualists and deconstructionists ; Speech-act and reader-response theory ; Social sciences, philosophy, biblical studies ; Orality, writing and being human ; 'Media' versus human communication ; The inward turn: consciousness and the text.