Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology: Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture - Couverture rigide

Ong, Walter J.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0801406455 ISBN 13 : 9780801406454

Editeur : Cornell University Press, 1971

Synopsis

This collection of essays by Walter J. Ong focuses on the complex and dynamic relationship between verbal performance and cultural evolution. By studying the history of rhetoric and related arts from classical antiquity through the age of romanticism to the modern period, Ong both illuminates the past and helps explain late-twentieth-century modes of expression.

Elegantly written and wide ranging, Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology traces the evolution of devices used to store, retrieve, and communicate knowledge. Ong discusses diverse topics including memory as art, associationist critical theory, the close relationship between romanticism and technology, and the popular culture of the 1970s. This book also contains essays about Tudor writings in English on rhetoric and literary theory, the study of Latin as a Renaissance puberty rite, Ramism in the classroom and in commerce, Jonathan Swift's notion of the mind, and John Stuart Mill's politics.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Walter J. Ong (1912-2003) taught at Saint Louis University for thirty years. His many books include Orality and Literacy, Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology; Interfaces of the Word; and Fighting for Life, the latter three from Cornell.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cornell University Press
• Date d'édition: 1971
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801406455
• ISBN 13: 9780801406454
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 362
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• Personne responsable: non disponible