Interfaces of the Word : Studies in the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture /

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In Interfaces of the World, Walter J. Ong explores the effects on consciousness of the word as it moves through oral to written to print and electronic culture.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ong, Walter J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1977.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Bewusstsein
Filosofie.
Taal.
Literatur
Kultur
Language and languages > Philosophy.
Consciousness.
Civilization > Philosophy.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
COMPUTERS > Information Theory.
Civilisation > Philosophie.
Conscience.
Langage et langues > Philosophie.
Consciousness
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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