Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word

9 best books like Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (Walter J. Ong): The Medium is the Massage, Ways of Seeing, The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America, Preface to Plato, The Singer of Tales, Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments, The Americans, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

The Medium is the Massage

Author	Marshall McLuhan
ISBN	1584230703

The Medium is the Massage is Marshall McLuhan's most condensed, and perhaps most effective, presentation of his ideas. Using a layout style that was later copied by Wired, McLuhan and coauthor/designer Quentin Fiore combine word and image to illustrate and enact the ideas that were first put forward...

Ways of Seeing

Author	John Berger
ISBN	0140135154

John Berger’s Classic Text on Art
John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) Sunday Times critic commented: "This is an eye-opener...

The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America

Author

Leo Marx

For over four decades, Leo Marx's work has focused on the relationship between technology and culture in 19th- and 20th-century America. His research helped to define--and continues to give depth to--the area of American studies concerned with the links between scientific and technological advances,...

Preface to Plato

Author	Eric Alfred Havelock
ISBN	0674699068

Plato's frontal attack on poetry has always been a problem for sympathetic students, who have often minimized or avoided it. Beginning with the premise that the attack must be taken seriously, Eric Havelock shows that Plato's hostility is explained by the continued domination of the poetic tradition...

The Singer of Tales

Author	Albert Bates Lord
ISBN	0674808819

This 40th anniversary edition of Albert Lord's classic work includes a unique enhancement: a CD containing the original audio recordings of all the passages of heroic songs quoted in the book; a video publication of the kinescopic filming of the most valued of the singers; and selected photographs...

Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature

Author

Erich Auerbach

A half-century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's "Mimesis" still stands as a monumental achievement in literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught...

Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments

Author	Theodor W. Adorno
ISBN	0804736332

Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947. "What we had set out to do," the authors write in the Preface,...

The Americans

Author	Robert Frank
ISBN	3931141802

Armed with a camera and a fresh cache of film and bankrolled by a Guggenheim Foundation grant, Robert Frank crisscrossed the United States during 1955 and 1956. The photographs he brought back form a portrait of the country at the time and hint at its future. He saw the hope of the future in the faces of a...

Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

Author	Roland Barthes
ISBN	0374521344

A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucida was first published in 1979. Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, Roland Barthes presents photography as being outside the codes of language or culture, acting on the body as much as on the mind, and rendering death...