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Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology
Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture
Walter J. Ong (Author)
9780801478475
Paperback / softback, published 14 February 2013
362 pages, - 9 Halftones, black and white - 8 Plates, color - 8 Plates, black and white
21.6 x 14 x 2.4 cm, 0.907 kg
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.