Tag: Walter Ong

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| June 14, 2015

organizing the sensorium

In his extraordinary book The Presence of the Word (1967), Walter Ong wrote, Growing up, assimilating the wisdom of the...

| January 23, 2009

in the reign of King Josiah

For people interested in the relations between orality and literacy, there’s a fascinating passage in the Biblical...

| December 30, 2008

the seminar on reading

When the new semester begins at Wheaton College, where I teach, I’ll lead a seminar for senior English majors on the...