Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology: Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture

by Walter J. Ong

Book Overview

This collection of essays by Walter J. Ong focuses on the complex and dynamic relationship between verbal performance and cultural evolution. By studying the history of rhetoric and related arts from classical antiquity through the age of romanticism to the modern period, Ong both illuminates the past and helps explain late-twentieth-century modes of expression.

Elegantly written and wide ranging, Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801406455
• ISBN13: 9780801406454
• Release Date: October 1971
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher