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Theoretical and experimental study of the vibrational excitations in ethane monolayers adsorbed on graphite (0001) surfaces
(American Institute of Physics, 1987)
The collective vibrational excitations of two different crystalline monolayer phases of ethane (C2H6) adsorbed on the graphite (0001) surface have been investigated theoretically and experimentally. The monolayer phases ...
Orientational order in nitrogen monolayers adsorbed on graphite at low temperature
(American Physical Society, 1987)
Elastic neutron diffraction has been used to study the structure of N2 films adsorbed on the (0001) surfaces of an exfoliated graphite substrate at coverages CTHETA between 1.0 and 1.67 layers and at temperatures below 11 ...
Literacy, Commerce, and Catholicity: Two Contexts of Change and Invention
(1987-01)
The pioneering work on orality and literacy by Walter Ong invites revisionist thinking about a great many things. Thus, a new "meta-discipline" is emerging which not only poses new questions but calls for re-exploring ...
The Ramist Style of John Udall: Audience and Pictorial Logic in Puritan Sermon and Controversy
(1987-01)
With Wilbur Samuel Howell's Logic and Rhetoric in England, 1500-1700 (1956), Walter J. Ong's Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue (1958) helped establish the common contemporary view that Ramism impoverished logic and ...
"Voice" and "Address" in Literary Theory
(1987-01)
One of Walter Ong's major interests has been the history of the rhetorical tradition in the West and its impact on literary forms. In recent years that interest has faced a powerful challenge from the theoretical advances ...
Characteristics of Orality
(1987-01)
In his book Orality and Literacy Father Ong listed a number of characteristics which are among "those which set off orally based thought and expression from chirographically and typographically based thought and expression, ...
The Harmony of Time in Paradise Lost
(1987-01)
In the first terrible misery following Gods judgment on him, Adam longed for death. Nor could he understand the delay in carrying out the sentence. The conditions had been clear enough: "In the day thou eat'st, thou ...
Orality-Literacy Studies and the Unity of the Human Race
(1987-01)
At the end of a symposium and volume such as this, with its array of varied and brilliant papers, it is difficult to know what to say by way of conclusion other than to express my heartfelt thanks to the impressive ...
The Authority of The Word in St. John's Gospel: Charismatic Speech, Narrative Text, Logocentric Metaphysics
(1987-01)
Few topics are as suited for a celebration of Walter Ong's intellectual accomplishment as the Logos, for the Word in its kaleidoscopic manifestations and intriguing transformations constitutes the center of his lifelong ...
The Structure and Changing Functions of Oral Traditions
(1987-05)
The transmission of knowledge by means of oral literary forms, so strongly attacked by Plato in the fourth century B.C., has not disappeared completely. Throughout the many centuries of supremacy of the written word over ...
The Judeo-Spanish Ballad Tradition
(1987-05)
"As the repertoire of an isolated, archaizing minority, which has lived for centuries in contact with Balkan, Near Eastern, and North African cultures, the ballad tradition of the Spanish-speaking Sephardic Jews constitutes ...
Early Christian Creeds and Controversies in the Light of the Orality-Literacy Hypothesis
(1987-01)
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 Cosmic Myths of Homer and Hesiod
(1987-01)
Embedded in the narratives of the Homeric poems are a few passages which open windows on the ways in which the Homeric poet envisioned the cosmos around him. They occur as brief digressions, offering powerful but by no ...
Books Received
(1987-01)
Coming of Age in the Global Village
(1987-01)
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; ...
The Living Ballad in Brazil: Two Performances
(1987-05)
Many approaches have been devised to study the elusive art form known as the oral traditional ballad, to try to reach an understanding of the interplay between memory and creativity in its transmission from one generation ...
In Defense of Romancero Geography
(1987-05)
"Ramón Menéndez Pidal’s pioneering essay “Sobre geografía folklórica. Ensayo de un método” (1920) constituted the first full-scale implementation of geographic methods in romancero studies. At a time when the very concept ...
Collecting Portuguese Ballads
(1987-05)
"The Spanish began to publish extensive collections dedicated exclusively to their ballads in the middle of the sixteenth century (see Rodríguez-Moñino 1973). These collections included versions of many poems that had ...
The Artisan Poetry of the Romancero
(1987-05)
The Spaniard who does not know of the existence of the romancero is rare. Some have come to know of it by learned means, through school books and literature classes in high school or even in the university; others because ...
Welcome to our world
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 1987)
"Innovative treatment by occupational therapist Peggy Dawson is helping victims of multiple personality disorder put their lives together."--Table of contents for issue.