Oral tradition, volume 02, number 1 (January 1987) - Festschrift for Walter J. Ong

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Table of Contents

  • Cover
  • Front Matter
  • Editor's Column
  • About the Authors (Back Matter)
  • Articles
    • The Cosmic Myths of Homer and Hesiod
      by Eric A. Havelock
    • Characteristics of Orality
      by Albert B. Lord
    • The Complexity of Oral Tradition
      by Bruce A. Rosenberg
    • Man, Muse, and Story: Psychohistorical Patterns in Oral Epic Poetry
      by John Miles Foley
    • The Authority of the Word in St. John’s Gospel: Charismatic Speech, Narrative Text, Logocentric Metaphysics
      by Werner H. Kelber
    • Early Christian Creeds and Controversies in the Light of the Orality-Literacy Hypothesis
      by Thomas J. Farrell
    • Orality and Textuality in Medieval Castilian Prose
      by Dennis P. Seniff
    • Peter Ramus, Walter Ong, and the Tradition of Humanistic Learning
      by Peter Sharratt
    • The Ramist Style of John Udall: Audience and Pictorial Logic in Puritan Sermon and Controversy
      by John G. Rechtien
    • "Voice" and "Address" in Literary Theory
      by William J. Kennedy
    • The Making of the Novel and the Evolution of Consciousness
      by Ruth El Saffar
    • Two Functions of Social Discourse: From Lope de Vega to Miguel de Cervantes
      by Elias L. Rivers
    • The Harmony of Time in Paradise Lost
      by Robert Kellogg
    • Orality and Literacy in Matter and Form: Ben Franklin’s Way to Wealth
      by Thomas J. Steele
    • A Remark on Silence and Listening
      by Paolo Valesio
    • Speech Is the Body of the Spirit: The Oral Hermeneutic in the Writings of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
      by Harold M. Stahmer
    • Rahner on Sprachregelung: Regulation of Language? Of Speech?
      by Frans Jozef van Beeck
    • Literacy, Commerce, and Catholicity: Two Contexts of Change and Invention
      by Randolph F. Lumpp
    • Coming of Age in the Global Village
      by James M. Curtis
    • Orality-Literacy Studies and the Unity of the Human Race
      by Walter J. Ong

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    Coming of Age in the Global Village
    (1987-01) Curtis, James M.
    I wish to analyze in this paper three acts of violence directed against public figures: Arthur Bremer's attempt to assassinate George Wallace in 1972; John Hinckley, Jr.'s attempt to assassinate President Reagan in 1982; and Mark David Chapman's unfortunately successful attempt to kill John Lennon in 1981. Each of these three acts was inextricably bound up with popular culture, and the sensibilities of the psychotic young men who committed them were formed by popular culture.
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    The Making of the Novel and the Evolution of Consciousness
    (1987-01) Saffar, Ruth El
    In his article "Milton's Logical Epic and Evolving Consciousness" (1976a), Walter Ong points out that a critic looking at sixteenth- and seventeenth-century texts must inevitably engage in an examination of dissociations. A separation takes place in that period that makes easy repetition of the old formulae no longer possible. That separation renders obsolete, among other things, the epic, giving birth in its place to the novel. In the present paper I want to reflect upon narrative as it becomes a consciously written phenomenon, taking Don Quixote Part I (1605) and Lazarillo de Tormes (1554) as my cases in point.
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    Early Christian Creeds and Controversies in the Light of the Orality-Literacy Hypothesis
    (1987-01) Farrell, Thomas J.
    The orality-literacy hypothesis developed in the largely complementary works of Walter J. Ong, S.J., and Eric A. Havelock grows out of the field research of Milman Parry (1971). Better than half a century ago, Parry initiated the investigation into the composing practices of completely non-literate Yugoslav singers of stories that culminated in the landmark publication of The Singer of Tales by Albert B. Lord (1960).1 One of the central claims Ong and Havelock make in their formulation of the orality-literacy hypothesis is that the primary oral mentality is characterized by concrete thinking, while the literate mentality is characterized by abstract thinking. Coincidentally, the field research conducted by A. R. Luria (1976) better than half a century ago concerning the cognitive development of completely nonliterate peasants and peasants who had participated in a literacy program corroborates this claim of the orality-literacy hypothesis. In Ong's formulation of the orality-literacy hypothesis, he also notes that the primary oral mentality, and even the residually oral mentality of people who have acquired but who have not yet fully interiorized literacy and literate modes of thought, are characterized by formulary expressions.
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