Walter Ong: A Jesuit Rhetorical and Interdisciplinary Scholar and Educator

2020 ◽  
pp. 188-199
Keyword(s):  
Walter Ong

scholarly journals Orality and Rhetoric in Scelsi's Music

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-41
Author(s):  
IAN DICKSON
Keyword(s):  
Structural Approach ◽  
Walter Ong ◽  
Traditional Sense ◽  
Per Se

AbstractIn his later music Giacinto Scelsi rejected the mediation of notation, improvising his works and viewing the scores, produced mostly by assistants, as a mere record. But to what extent did he really transcend the ‘tyranny of writing’ and how might one demonstrate this? Critics have tended to echo the composer in reducing the problem to an opposition between writing and sound per se. In this article I discuss the limitations of this view and propose a more structural approach, using in particular the analysis of Walter Ong. I argue that Scelsi's idiom, while novel in its extreme economy of means, uses these means in such a way as to restore a traditional sense of musical ‘grammar’. I illustrate the rhetorical versatility of this grammar by contrasting the two apparently similar movements of the Duo of 1965.

scholarly journals La literatura oral: una apología del concepto. Parte I: La falsa analogía

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (79) ◽  
pp. 451-465
Author(s):  
Vanessa Franco Ramírez
Keyword(s):  
Walter Ong

El presente trabajo busca evidenciar la hipertrofia conceptual de la que sufre la literatura oral. Esto con la intención de revisar y fortalecer algunas de las ideas base que han venido fundamentando muchas de las investigaciones frente a este fenómeno. A través de la metodología hermenéutica, se presenta una revisión analítico-argumentativa de la premisa de la que se parte para no aceptar el concepto de literatura oral: la analogía de Walter Ong. Después, se explica la falacia por falsa analogía que constituye esta idea y, finalmente, se presenta la discusión acerca de la posible pertinencia de la nominalización literatura oral.

scholarly journals The Theology of Sound: A Critique of Orality

2011 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Sterne
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Marshall Mcluhan ◽  
Walter Ong ◽  
History Of

ABSTRACT  This article offers an intellectual history and critique of the concept of orality as developed by writers of the Toronto School, focusing especially on the work of Walter Ong and, to a lesser extent, Marshall McLuhan. It argues that common scholarly uses of orality, especially as a theory of acoustic or sound-based culture, are derived from the spirit-letter distinction in Christian spiritualism and a misreading of Hebraic philology by mid-twentieth-century theologians. It argues for a new history of early media and for a new global anthropology of communication that does not operate under the sign of orality. We can thereby honour the curiosity of scholars such as Harold Innis and Edmund Carpenter without taking their findings as timeless truths.RÉSUMÉ  Cet article offre une histoire intellectuelle et critique du concept d’oralité tel que  développé par des auteurs de l’École de Toronto, en portant une attention particulière à l’oeuvre de Walter Ong et, dans une moindre mesure, Marshall McLuhan. Il soutient que les applications académiques les plus communes de l’oralité, notamment en tant que théorie d’une culture acoustique ou sonore, se fondent sur la distinction esprit/lettre du spiritualisme chrétien et une lecture erronée de la philologie hébraïque par des théologiens du milieu du vingtième siècle. Cet article propose une nouvelle histoire des médias originels et une nouvelle anthropologie mondiale de la communication qui dépasseraient les conceptions conventionnelles de ce qu’est l’oralité. Nous pourrions ainsi honorer la curiosité de chercheurs comme Harold Innis et Edmund Carpenter sans devoir accepter leurs conclusions comme si elles étaient des vérités intemporelles.

Germination

2020 ◽  
pp. 60-99
Author(s):  
Howard Hotson
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Nature ◽  
Precise Location ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Walter Ong

Decades ago, Walter Ong intuited a powerful link between the advent of printing with moveable type, the subsequent spatialization of discourse most strikingly evident in Ramism, and the corpuscular, mechanistic physics of Descartes (section 3.i). More recently, Klaas van Berkel has identified the precise location of this link in Snellius’ student, Isaac Beeckman (1588–1637), who, working at the interface of artisanal knowledge and Ramist pedagogy, developed the basic principles of a physico-mathematical philosophy of nature which he passed on to Descartes in 1618–19 and to Gassendi and Mersenne a decade later (section 3.ii). Another figure of the same generation, Henricus Reneri (1593–1639), was inspired by a very similar set of interests and aspirations to become Descartes’ first devoted follower and perhaps closest friend (section 3.iii).

scholarly journals Abençoada cura: poéticas da voz e saberes de benzedeiras

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (27) ◽  
pp. 189
Author(s):  
Lidiane Alves da Cunha ◽  
Luiz Carvalho Assunção
Keyword(s):  
Oral Performance ◽  
Walter Ong ◽  
Richard Sennett

Este artigo se propõe a adentrar neste duplo universo: o aspecto mágico/religioso dos saberes das benzedeiras e o papel da palavra enquanto elemento de cura. Esse conhecimento, das quais somente estas são conhecedoras, se faz presente e se performatiza no instante, em que visível e invisível irão compor a força e o poder das palavras das benzedeiras, que não podem ser ensinadas à esmo sob pena de perder sua “força”. Assim, questiono por que as benzedeiras não ensinam o significado de suas preces, a não ser em determinados contextos de transmissão do saber? Que implicações esse preceito traz para o ofício nos dias de hoje? A partir das orações pronunciadas nos rituais de cura, elas performatizam a palavra, a voz, as narrações e memórias. O objetivo é alcançarmos essa fonte de saber existente na oralidade, a benzeção, desvendando a essência existente por trás da palavra, pois mais do que o significado literal, as palavras têm o poder de curar, sem a necessidade de possuir uma função definida, bem como de ser um saber transmitido em contextos em que a poética da voz se faz presente. É através da análise teórica dos textos, da etnobiografia e observação participante que buscamos nos aproximar do campo de atuação das benzedeiras nas cidades de Natal, Parnamirim -­ RN. Como referencial teórico, a obra de Paul Zumthor será a base para a construção das categorias voz, poesia oral, performance e oralidade. Também partiremos das obras de Richard Sennett, Walter Benjamim e Maurice Halbwachs e Walter Ong como eixo norteador dos estudos sobre oralidade, memória e narração.

L'Économie des sens en Inde: Exploration des thèses de Walter Ong

1990 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvain Pinard
Keyword(s):  
Walter Ong

Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. By Walter Ong

1984 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-68
Author(s):  
Paul Trainor ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Walter Ong

Telepathos: Medium Cool Romanticism

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Celeste Langan
Keyword(s):  
Critical Value ◽  
Media History ◽  
Vanishing Point ◽  
Romantic Poetry ◽  
Walter Ong ◽  
Primary Orality ◽  
As If

Abstract This essay argues for the critical value of situating Romantic poetry—particularly as it’s theorized by Wordsworth and Scott—as a “medium” between the two extremes that often shape accounts of media history: the “primary orality” of Walter Ong and the “techno-informatic vanishing point” of aesthetics recently described by Alan Liu in The Laws of Cool. I propose that Sir Walter Scott’s story, “My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror,” offers a “supernatural” or occulted account of how literature operates as a kind of telepathic medium, enabling readers to be “affected by absent things as if they were present.” But it offers at the same time, in its almost anachronistic play with the concept of “resolution” as a feature of the televisual screen, an account of all perception—both “immediate” and mediated—as a process of discretization and resynthesis that works remarkably like Wordsworth’s “digital” theory of meter.

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