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

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Drawing on quite a lot of disciplines―linguistics, phenomenological analysis, cultural anthropology, media studies, and intellectual history―Walter J. Ong offers a reasoned and sophisticated view of human consciousness different in many respects from that of structuralism. The essays in Interfaces of the Word are grouped across the dialectically related themes of change or alienation and growth or integration. A few of the subjects Ong covers are the origins of speech in mother tongues; the upward thrust and final erosion of nonvernacular learned languages; and the fictionalizing of audiences that may be enforced by writing. Other essays treat the idiom of African talking drums, the ways new media interface with the old, and the quite a lot of connections between specific literary forms and shifts in media that register within the work of Shakespeare and Milton and in movements such because the New Criticism. Ong also discusses the ironically nonliterary character of the Bible and the concerted blurring of fiction and actuality that marked much drama and narrative toward the close of the 20 th century.

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