An Ong Reader: Challanges for Further Inquiry (Hampton Press Communication Series Media Ecology)

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 592 pages
• Published by: Hampton Press February 2002
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1572734442
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1572734449
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.5 inches
• Weighs: 2 pounds

Reader Reviews
This review is from: An Ong Reader: Challanges for Further Inquiry (Hampton Press Communication Series Media Ecology) (Paperback) I take great pride and satisfaction in having served as the senior co-editor of _An Ong Reader: Challenges for Further Inquiry_, because it is arguably the finest collection of essays by Ong -- this collection is the eleventh collection of essays by Ong. The 28 selections gathered together in this collection span six decades of Ong's enormously productive life. The selections vary in length and in genre -- with two published interviews, six book reviews, one review essay, and one preface to another author's book. Several of the scholarly studies focus on the history of rhetoric and dialectic, whereas others center on orality and voice in literature. This collection should provide a strong background for reading Ong's masterwork, _Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue: From the Art of Discourse to the Art of Reason_ (3rd ed. University of Chicago Press, 2004), as well as for reading Ong's most widely known book, _Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word_ (2nd ed. Routledge, 2002). --Thomas J. Farrell, author of Walter Ong's Contributions to Cultural Studies: The Phenomenology of the Word and I-Thou Communication (Media Ecology)