Time, Memory, and the Verbal Arts

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Time, Memory, and the Verbal Arts is written by Dennis L. Weeks and published by Susquehanna University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1575910098 (ISBN 10) and 9781575910093 (ISBN 13).

Walter Ong pioneered the study of how orality and literacy mutually enrich each other in the evolution of human consciousness, arguing that verbal communication moves from orality to literacy and on to what he has termed the "secondary orality" of radio and television. The original essays in this volume explore the implications of Ong's work across the diverse fields of cultural history, literary theory, theology, philosophy, and anthropology. These scholars maintain that Ong's view of orality not only changes our readings of ancient and medieval texts, but that it also changes our understanding of the differing epistemologies of oral and literate cultures and of the coexistence of the oral and literate within a given culture.