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12%OFFS.J. Walter J. Ong - Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology: Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture - 9780801478475 - V9780801478475
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Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology: Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture

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Description for Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology: Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture Paperback. Num Pages: 358 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFGR; DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.

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. ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
362
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801478475
SKU
V9780801478475
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About S.J. Walter J. Ong
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.

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