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Notes from the Walter J. Ong Archive

Ong's Orality-Literacy Publications

Short Bibliography

This bibliography is not intended to be a “must-read” or “best of” list of essays, but rather is a sampling of Walter J. Ong's essays intended to extend the ideas found in Orality and Literacy. A more comprehensive bibliography is available. Please see the introduction for more information.

“Space, Space, and Intellect in Renaissance Symbolism.” Bibliotheque d' Humanisme et Renaissance 18 (1956): 222-39; Rpt. in The Barbarian Within: And Other Fugitive Essays and Studies. New York: MacMillan, 1962. 68-87; Rpt. in Faith and Contexts. Vol. 3: Further Essays, 1952-1990. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995. 9-27.

“Secular Knowledge, Revealed Religion, and History.” Religious Education 52.5 (1957): 341-49; Rpt as "Secular Knowledge and Revealed Religion" in American Catholic Crossroads: Religious-Secular Encounters in the Modern World. New York: The Macmillian Company, 1959. 74-95.

“Wired for Sound: Teaching, Communications, and Technological Culture.” College English 21.5 (1960): 245-51; Rpt. in The Barbarian Within: And Other Fugitive Essays and Studies. New York: MacMillan, 1962. 220-29.

“Ramist Method and the Commerical Mind.” Studies in the Renaissance 8 (1961): 155-72; Rpt. in Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology: Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1971. 165-189.

“Oral Residue in Tudor Prose Style.” PMLA 80.3 (1965): 145-54; Rpt. in Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology: Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1971. 23-47; Rpt. in An Ong Reader: Challenges for Further Inquiry. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2002. 313-329.

“Breakthrough in Communications.” In the Human Grain: Further Explorations of Contemporary Culture. New York: Macmillan, 1967. 1-16.

“Knowledge in Time.” Knowledge and the Future of Man: An International Symposium. Ed. Walter J. Ong. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1968. 3-38; Rpt. in Faith and Contexts. Vol. 1. Selected Essays and Studies, 1952-1991. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1992. 127-53.

“World as View and World as Event.” American Anthropologist 71.4 (1969): 634-47; Rpt. in Faith and Contexts. Vol. 3: Further Essays, 1952-1990. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995. 69-90.

“'I See What You Say': Sense Analogues for Intellect.” (1970); Rpt. in Interfaces of the Word: Studies in the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1977. 122-44; Rpt. in Faith and Contexts. Vol. 3: Further Essays, 1952-1990. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995. 91-111.

“The Writer's Audience is Always a Fiction.” PMLA 90.1 (1975): 9-22; Rpt. in Interfaces of the Word: Studies in the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1977. 53-81; Rpt. in Cross-Talk in Comp Theory: A Reader. Ed. Victor Villanueva, Jr. Urbana: NCTE, 1997. 55-76; Rpt. in An Ong Reader: Challenges for Further Inquiry. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2002. 405-27.

“Technology Outside Us and Inside Us.” Communio: International Catholic Review 5.2 (1978): 100-21; Rpt. in Faith and Contexts. Vol. 1. Selected Essays and Studies, 1952-1991. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1992. 189-208.

“The Agonistic Base of Scientifically Abstract Thought: Issues in Fighting for Life: Contest, Sexuality, and Consciousness.” (1982); Rpt. in An Ong Reader: Challenges for Further Inquiry. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2002. 479-95.

“Writing and the Evolution of Consciousness.” Mosaic 18.1 (1985): 1-10; Rpt. in Faith and Contexts. Vol. 3: Further Essays, 1952-1990. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995. 202-14.

Letter to Victor J. Vitanza, editor, of PRE/TEXT. PRE/TEXT 8.1-2 (1987): 155. - Response to Beth Daniell's “Against the Great Leap Theory of Literacy,” published in PRE/TEXT 7.3-4 (1986): 181-193.

“Orality-Literacy Studies and the Unity of the Human Race.” Oral Tradition 2 (1987): 371-82; Rpt. in Faith and Contexts. Vol. 1. Selected Essays and Studies, 1952-1991. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1992. 209-18.

“Hermeneutic Forever: Voice, Text, Digitization, and the 'I.'” Oral Tradition 10.1 (1995): 3-36; Rpt. in Faith and Contexts. Vol. 4: Additional Studies and Essays 1947-1996. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999. 183-203.

“Digitization Ancient and Modern: Beginnings of Writing and Today's Computers.” Communication Research Trends 18.2 (1998): 4-21; Rpt. in An Ong Reader: Challenges for Further Inquiry. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2002. 527-49.

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