Author : Dennis L. Weeks,Jane Susan Hoogestraat
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 1575910098
Time, Memory, and the Verbal Arts by Dennis L. Weeks,Jane Susan Hoogestraat Pdf
Walter Ong pioneered the study of how orality and literacy mutually enrich each other in the evolution of human consciousness, arguing that verbal communication moves from orality to literacy and on to what he has termed the "secondary orality" of radio and television. The original essays in this volume explore the implications of Ong's work across the diverse fields of cultural history, literary theory, theology, philosophy, and anthropology. These scholars maintain that Ong's view of orality not only changes our readings of ancient and medieval texts, but that it also changes our understanding of the differing epistemologies of oral and literate cultures and of the coexistence of the oral and literate within a given culture.