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'Professor Walter Ong's book explores some of the profound changes in our thought processes, personality and social structures which are the result, at various stages of our history, of the development of speech, writing and print. And he projects his analysis further into the age of mass electronic communications media the cumulative impact of the book is dazzling. Read this book. Literature will never be the same again. And neither will you.' - Robert Giddings, Tribune
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This classic work explores the vast differences between oral and literate cultures and offers a brilliantly clear account of the intellectual, literary and social effects of writing, print and electronic technology.
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In the past few decades the scholarly world has newly awakened to the oral character of language and to some of the deeper implications of the contrasts between orality and writing. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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In the past few decades the scholarly world has newly awakened to the oral character of language and to some of the deeper implications of the contrasts between orality and writing. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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