In this update of the first on-line bibliography of the works of Walter Ong, you will find annotations from new contributors. Graduate students in the History of Rhetoric class I taught in the spring worked diligently to read Ong\u2019s work in depth and annotate articles in the bibliography. I also taught a class in Argumentation in the spring; twelve undergraduates brought enthusiasm to the task as they revised their annotations and re-read Ong again and again. This update lists their names and school affiliation. I thank each of these students for her and his efforts in taking on an assignment not frequently encountered in other classes.<\/p>\n
Any annotations that do not have names attached belong either to me or my research assistant Molly Youngkin.\u00a0 As Molly continues her Ph.D. at The Ohio State University in Victorian Studies, she remains committed to this long-term Ong project.\u00a0 I am, as always, grateful for her fine collaboration and patience.<\/p>\n
In recent months, two publications have appeared that visitors to this web site will be interested in reading.\u00a0 Dennis Weeks and Jane Hoogestraat\u2019s collection of essays Time, Memory, and the Verbal Arts:\u00a0 Essays on the Thought of Walter Ong <\/i>was published in December 1998.\u00a0 The essays in this volume address the relevance of Ong\u2019s body of work at the end of the century provide a specific context for Ongian readings of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Faulkner, and Dylan Thomas.\u00a0 Electric Rhetoric:\u00a0 Classical Rhetoric, Oralism, and a New Literacy<\/i> by Kathleen Welch at the University of Oklahoma was available from MIT Press in July 1999.\u00a0 This book not only uses Ong\u2019s work as a foundational theory for understanding the history of rhetoric before Aristotle, it shows the implications of “secondary orality” (Ong\u2019s coinage for the electronic word) in fresh and innovative ways.\u00a0 Welch incorporates Ong\u2019s concepts to call for the humanities disciplines to claim their rightful place in the technological revolution.\u00a0 Her book also provides one more item to add to the Ong bibliography:\u00a0 the Foreword he wrote for it.<\/p>\n
In summer 1999, a community of annotators is now a reality.\u00a0\u00a0 Once again, I invited other scholars to join us and add to the growing list of publications both on-line and in print to celebrate the legacy of Walter J. Ong.<\/p>\n
In this update of the first on-line bibliography of the works of Walter Ong, you will find annotations from new contributors. Graduate students in the History of Rhetoric class I taught in the spring worked diligently to read Ong\u2019s work in depth and annotate articles in the bibliography. I also taught a class in Argumentation … Continue reading Summer 1999 Update<\/span>