Walter Ong's Contributions to Cultural Studies
Walter Ong's Contributions to Cultural Studies

Author: Thomas J. Farrell

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9781572739505

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The American cultural historian and philosopher Walter J. Ong, S.J. (1912-2003) studied the deep developments of Western culture extensively. As a result, his multifaceted work can help us get our cultural bearings in the world today. In the present book, Thomas Farrell provides a comprehensive view of Ong’s thought, but he also shows the importance of Ong in the contemporary intellectual landscape. Ong has made a contribution in the following disciplines: literary studies, communication, theology and religious studies, psychology, literary history, and linguistics, and he is a recognized scholar in still other areas. The objective of this book is not so much to summarize and synthesize but rather to provide some interpretative guides that will bring the reader into Ong’s own lively discussion of contemporary intellectual issues.

Orality and Literacy
Orality and Literacy

Author: Walter J. Ong

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-12-16

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1134461615

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This classic work explores the vast differences between oral and literate cultures offering a very clear account of the intellectual, literary and social effects of writing, print and electronic technology. In the course of his study, Walter J. Ong offers fascinating insights into oral genres across the globe and through time, and examines the rise of abstract philosophical and scientific thinking. He considers the impact of orality-literacy studies not only on literary criticism and theory but on our very understanding of what it is to be a human being, conscious of self and other. This is a book no reader, writer or speaker should be without.

The Presence of the Word
The Presence of the Word

Author: Walter J. Ong

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1967-01-01

Total Pages: 828

ISBN-13: 9780300099737

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This provocative exploration of the nature and history of the word in some of its social, psychological, literary, phenomenological, and religious dimensions argues that the word is initially aural and in the last analysis always remains sound; it cannot be reduced to any other category. Father Ong contends that sound is essentially an event manifesting power and personal presence, and his descriptive analysis of the development of the media of verbal expression, from their oral sources through the laborious transfer to the visual world and then to contemporary means of electronic communication, shows that the predicament of the human word is the predicament of man himself. Examining the close alliance of the spoken word with the sense of the sacred, particularly in the Hebreo-Christian tradition, he reveals that in a world where presence has penetrated time and space as never before, modern man must find the God who has given himself in the Word which brings man more into the world of sound than of sight.

Oral Tradition and Book Culture
Oral Tradition and Book Culture

Author: Pertti Anttonen

Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand

Published: 2018-09-28

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 9518580073

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A new interdisciplinary interest has risen to study interconnections between oral tradition and book culture. In addition to the use and dissemination of printed books, newspapers etc., book culture denotes manuscript media and the circulation of written documents of oral tradition in and through the archive, into published collections. Book culture also intertwines the process of framing and defining oral genres with literary interests and ideologies. The present volume is highly relevant to anyone interested in oral cultures and their relationship to the culture of writing and publishing. The questions discussed include the following: How have printing and book publishing set terms for oral tradition scholarship? How have the practices of reading affected the circulation of oral traditions? Which books and publishing projects have played a key role in this and how? How have the written representations of oral traditions, as well as the roles of editors and publishers, introduced authorship to materials customarily regarded as anonymous and collective?

Literacy and Orality
Literacy and Orality

Author: Ruth Finnegan

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2014-09-18

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 1291995412

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An enlarged and updated edition of Ruth Finnegan's authoritative and fully evidenced classic.

Walter Ong's Contributions to Cultural Studies
Walter Ong's Contributions to Cultural Studies

Author: Thomas J. Farrell

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13:

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This analytic survey and evaluation renders an account of Ong's contributions to cultural studies. Chapter 1 serves as a prologue to the study and the initial discussion of the import of Ong's work is set forth. Chapter 2 presents background information about Ong's life and work and both Chapters 1 and 2 contain definitions of issues and terms. In Chapters 3 through to 8 Ong's most significant scholarly books and collections of essays are surveyed: Chapter 3 is devoted to delineating Ong's account of Ramus and Ramism; Chapter 4 surveys his early writing on religious topics; Chapter 5 looks at Ong as the intellectual-at-large; Chapter 6 covers ""The Presence of the Word""; Chapter 7 takes up his literacy and communication studies; and Chapter 8 discusses his two culminating psychological studies of the 1980s - ""Fighting for Life"" and ""Hopkins, the Self and God"". Chapter 9 concludes the study with an assessment of Ong's work.

Research Methods for Cultural Studies
Research Methods for Cultural Studies

Author: Michael Pickering

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2008-02-22

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0748631194

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This new textbook addresses the neglect of practical research methods in cultural studies. It provides readers with clearly written overviews of research methods in cultural studies, along with guidelines on how to put these methods into operation. It advocates a multi-method approach, with students drawing from a pool of techniques and approaches suitable for their own topics of investigation.The book covers the following main areas:* Drawing on experience, and studying how narratives make sense of experience.* Investigating production processes in the cultural industries, and the consumption and assimilation of cultural products by audiences and fans.* Taking both quantitative and qualitative approaches to the study of cultural life.* Analysing visual images and both spoken and written forms of discourse.* Exploring cultural memory and historical representation.

Charles Walters
Charles Walters

Author: Brent Phillips

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2014-12-02

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 0813147220

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A “lively biography” of the director who choreographed Fred Astaire, Debbie Reynolds and more: “a real backstager” on the making of Hollywood musicals (Wall Street Journal). From the trolley scene in Meet Me in St. Louis to Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers's last dance on the silver screen to Judy Garland's tuxedo-clad performance of "Get Happy", Charles Walters staged the iconic musical sequences of Hollywood's golden age. The Academy Award-nominated director and choreographer showcased the talents of stars such as Gene Kelly, Doris Day, and Frank Sinatra—yet Walters's name often goes unrecognized today. In the first full-length biography of Walters, Brent Phillips chronicles the artist's career from his days as a Broadway performer to his successes at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Phillips takes readers behind the scenes of beloved musicals including Easter Parade, Lili, and High Society. He also examines the director's uncredited work on films like Gigi, and discusses his contributions to musical theater and American popular culture. This revealing book also considers Walters's personal life and explores how he navigated the industry as an openly gay man. Drawing on unpublished oral histories, correspondence, and new interviews, this biography offers an entertaining and important new look at an exciting era in Hollywood history.

Language, Culture, and Identity
Language, Culture, and Identity

Author: Sara van den

Publisher: Hampton Press (NJ)

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781572739673

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In 2005, scholars gathered for a conference at Saint Louis University to honour the memory of Walter J. Ong, S.J., whose work had a major impact on the study of language in many different disciplines. This book gathers together contributions from that conference and offers significant reflections on psychoanalysis, biomedical ethics, children's literacy, Biblical studies, and electronic textuality, among others.