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Ramus and Talon Inventory: A Short-Title Inventory of the Published Works of Peter Ramus (1515-1572) and of Omer Talon (ca. 1510-1562) in Their Original and in Their Variously Altered Forms, with Related Material: 1. The Ramist Controversies: A Descriptive Catalogue. 2. Agricola Check List: A Short-Title Inventory of Printed Editions and Printed Compendia of Rudolph Agricola’s Dialectical Invention (De Inventione Dialectica). Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1958. Distributed in Great Britain by London: Oxford UP. Facsimile rpt. Folcroft, PA: Folcroft P, 1969.
Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue: From the Art of Discourse to the Art of Reason. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1958. Distributed in Great Britain by London: Oxford UP, 1958. New York: Octagon-Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1974, 1979. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1983. Paperback. Additional preface by Ong. Reprinted portions of RMD: “Ramist Rhetoric.” The Province of Rhetoric. Ed. Joseph Schwartz and John A. Rycenga. New York: Ronald P, 1965. 226-55; and in abridged form “Printing and Science.” The Scientific Revolution. Ed. Vern L. Bullough. European Problem Studies. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. 76-78.
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The Barbarian Within, And Other Fugitive Essays and Studies. New York: Macmillan, 1962. Second printing, 1968. All chapters published originally as articles except Chapter 15, “The Barbarian Within: Outsiders Inside Society Today.”
In the Human Grain: Further Explorations of Contemporary Culture. New York: Macmillan, 1967. London: Collier-Macmillan, 1967. All chapters published earlier as articles except Chapter 1, “Breakthrough in Communications.”
The Presence of the Word: Some Prolegomena for Cultural and Religious History. The Terry Lectures, Yale University. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1967. Rpt. New York: Clarion-Simon and Schuster, 1970. Paperback. Rpt. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1981, 1991. Trans. in Italian. La Presenza della Parola. Trans. Rosanna Zelocchi. Intro. Renato Barilli. Bologna: Società Editrice il Mulino, 1970. Trans. in French. Retrouver la Parola: Introductions à l’Histoire de la Culture et de la Religion. Trans. Barbara O’Connor and Jean-Philippe Fabien. Paris: Mame, 1971. Trans. in Korean. Un Uh Ye Hyun Jeon. Trans. Lee Young Gul. Seoul: Tam-Ku Dang, 1985. Reprinted Portions of PW: “Polemic and the Word.” Communications Control: Readings in the Motives and Structures of Censorship. Ed. John M. Phelan. New York: Sheed and Ward, 1969. 155-69; and “Word as Sound.” Landmark Essays on Voice and Writing. Vol. 4 of Landmark Essays. Ed. Peter Elbow. Davis, CA: Hermagoras, 1994. 19-34.
Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology: Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture. Ithaca and London: Cornell UP, 1971, 1980, 1990. Chapters not published elsewhere: Chapter 1, “Rhetoric and the Origins of Consciousness”; Chapter 11, “Romantic Difference and the Poetics of Technology”; and Chapter 12, “The Literate Orality of Popular Culture Today.”
Why Talk? A Conversation About Language with Walter J. Ong, conducted by Wayne Altree. Intro. Morton W. Bloomfield. National Humanities Faculty Why Series. San Francisco: Chandler and Sharp, 1973, 1978, 1979. Trans. in Italian. Conversazione sul Linguaggio. Rome: Armando, 1993.
Interfaces of the Word: Studies in the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture. Ithaca and London: Cornell UP, 1977. Rpt. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1982. Paperback. Trans. in Italian. Interfacce della Parola. Trans. Gino Scatasta. Bologna: Il Mulino, 1989. Reprinted portions of IW: Chap. 9, “Maranatha: Death and Life in the Text of the Book,” in Journal of the American Academy of Religion 45 (1977): 419-99; and in FC2 128-61. This study was originally presented 29 Oct. 1976, in St. Louis, MO, at the plenary session of the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion; and portions of Chap. 11, “Voice and the Opening of Closed Systems,” as “Interfaces of the Word: Television as Open System” in Inter/Media: Interpersonal Communication in a Media World. Ed. Gary Gumpert and Robert Cathcart. 2nd. ed. New York and Oxford: Oxford UP, 1982. 93-109. Rpt FC2 162-90. All other chapters, except Chaps. 1, 9, and 11 were published earlier as articles. A shorter version of Chap. 9 was presented at a plenary session of the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion on October 29, 1976 in St. Louis, Missouri.
Fighting for Life: Contest, Sexuality, and Consciousness. The Messenger Lectures on the Evolution of Civilization, Cornell University, 1979. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1981. Rpt. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1989. Paperback. Trans. in Spanish. La Lucha por la Vida: Contextación, Sexualidad, y Conciencia. Trans. Juan Novella Domingo. Madrid: Aguilar S.A. de Ediciones, 1982. Trans. in Japanese. Sei e no To-so-: To-so-honno, Sei, Ishiki. Trans. Shunichi Takayanagi. Tokyo: Hosei UP, 1992.
Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. New Accents Series. London and New York: Methuen, 1982. 4th printing, 1986. Trans. in Italian. Oralità e scrittura: La Tecnologies della Parola. Intro. Rosamaria Loretelli. Bologna: Il Mulino, 1986. Partial trans. (pp. 70-71, 130-34, 151-54) in Romanian. “Cuvi^ rostit, cuvi^nt scris, cuvi^nt tiparit.” Trans. Alexandru Dut,u. In “Antologie de Texte” in Dimensiunea umana a istoriei: Directii in istoria mentalitatilor. By Dut,u. Bucharest: Editura Merideane, 1986. 283-302. Trans. in Spanish. Oralidad y Escritura: Tecnologías de la Palabra. Trans. Angélica Scherp. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1987. Trans. in German. Oralität und Literalität: Die Technologisierung des Wortes. Trans. Wolfgang Schoemel. Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1987. Trans. in Swedish. Muntlig och schriftlig kultur. Trans. Lars Fyhr, Gunnar D. Hanson, and Lillian Perme. Göteborg: Bokförlaget Anthropos, 1990. Trans. in Japanese. Koe no bunka to moji no bunka. Trans. Naofumi Sakurai, Masahiro Hayashi, and Keisuki Kasuya. Tokyo: Fujiwara-Shoten, 1991. Trans. in Polish. Oralnos’c’ Pismiennos’c’: Slowo poddane technologii. Lublin: Redakcja Wydawnictw, Katoickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego, 1992. Trans. in Turkish. Sözlü ve Yazili Kültür: Sözün Teknolojiles,mesi. Istanbul: Metis Yayinlari, 1995. Trans. in Korean. Forthcoming. Trans. in Greek. Forthcoming. Athens: Editions Synetheia-Panagiotis Syrellis.Trans. in Chinese. Forthcoming. Taipei: Yuan-Liou. Rpt portions of OL: “Print, Space, and Closure” (pages 118-23, 130-33, 133-38 of Chapter 5). The Press of Ideas: Readings for Writers on Print Culture and the Information Age. Ed. Julie Bates Dock. Boston: Bedford-St. Martin’s, 1996. 52-64″Some Psychodynamics of Orality” (most of Chapter 3). Perspectives on Literacy. Ed. Eugene R. Kintgen, Barry M. Kroll, and Mike Rose. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois UP, 1988. 28-43; “The Orality of Language.” Annals of Scholarship: Metastudies of the Humanities and Social Sciences. 1981. 5-16; and “The Psychodynamics of Oral Memory and Narrative: Some Implications for Biblical Studies.” The Pedagogy of God’s Image: Essays on Symbol and the Religious Imagination. The Annual Publication of the College Theology Society, 1981. Ed. Robert Masson. Chico, CA: Scholars P, 1982. 55-73.
Hopkins, the Self, and God. The Alexander Lectures, University of Toronto, 1980. Toronto, Buffalo, London: Toronto UP, 1986. Rpt. Toronto: Toronto UP, 1993. Paperback.
Faith and Contexts: Vol 1, Selected Essays and Studies, 1952-1991. Vol. 1 of 3 vols. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Intro. Farrell. Atlanta: Scholars P, 1992.
Faith and Contexts: Vol 2, Supplementary Studies, 1946-1989. Vol. 2 of 3 vols. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Atlanta: Scholars P, 1992.
Faith and Contexts: Vol. 3, Further Essays 1952-1990. Vol. 3 of 3 vols. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Atlanta: Scholars P, 1995.