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A Sampler of Works by Walter J. Ong

Walter J. Ong, S.J. published over 400 books, articles, reviews and other items in many popular and professional venues.

Below is a sampler of these publications that illustrates over time the scope and character of his published work.

 

 

 

 

The following are some examples of Fr. Walter J. Ong's works:

 

1943

  • "The Meaning of the 'New Criticism'." The Modern Schoolman, 20:192-209.

 

 

 

1945

  • "The Comics and the Super State: Glimpses Down the Back Alleys of the Mind." Arizona Quarterly, 1:34-48

 

 

 

1946

  • "Newman's Essay on Development in Its Intellectual Milieu." Theological Studies, 7:3-45

 

 

 

1949

  • ""Hopkins' Sprung Rhythm and the Life of English Poetry." In Norman Weyland, ed. Immortal Diamond: Studies in Gereard Manley 

Hopkins. New York: Sheed and Ward. pp. 93-173 

 

 

 

1951

  • "Psyche and the Geometers: Aspects of Associationist Critical Theory." Modern Philosphy, 49:16-27. 

 

 

 

1952

  • Review article on The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man by Marshall McLuhan, Social Order, 2:79-85.

 

  • "American Catholicism and America." Thought, 27:521-41

 

 

 

1953

  • "Peter Ramus and the Naming of Mehodism: Medieval Science through Ramist Homiletic." Journal of the History of Ideas, 14:235-48.

 

 

 

1955

  • "System, Space and Intellect in Renaissance Symbolism." Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance (Geneva), 18:222-39.

 

 

 

1957

  • "Secular Knowledge, Revealed Religion, and History." Religious Education 52:341-49. 

 

 

 

1958

  • Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue: From the Art of Discourse to the Art of Reason.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University

Press.

 

 

 

1959

  • "Latin Language Study as a Renaissance Puberty Rite." Studies in Philosophy, 56:103-24.

 

 

 

1960

  • "Wired for Sound: Teaching, Communications, and Technological Culture." College English, 21:245-51. 

 

  • "Nationalism and Darwin: A Psychological Problem in Our Concept of Social Development." Review of Politics, 22:466-81.

 

 

 

1962

  • "Religion, Scholarship and the Resituation of Man." Daedalus, 91:418-36

 

  • Review of The Gutenberg Galaxy by Marshall McLuhan, America, 107:743-47

 

 

 

1963

  • "Knowledge, Time, and Man." In Current Issues in Higher education 1963, G. Kerry Smith, ed. Washington, DC: Assocation for Higher

Education. pp. 230-32

 

 

 

1967

  • The Presence of the Word: Some Prolegomena for Cultural and Relgious History. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.

 

 

 

1970

  • "'I See What You Say': Sense Analogles for Intelllect." Human Inquiries, 10:22-42. 

 

 

 

1975

  • "The Writer's Audience is Always a Fiction." Publications of the Modern Language Association, 90:9-21.

 

 

 

1977

  • "Oral Culture and the Literate Mind. In Minority Language and Literature. Dexter Fisher, ed. New York: Modern Language Association

of America. pp. 134-49"

 

 

 

1979

  • "Presidential Address 1978: The Human Nature of Professionalism." PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association 94, no. 3

(May 1979): 385-94

 

 

 

1981

  • Fighting for Life: Contest, Sexuality, amd Consciousness. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 

 

 

 

1982

  • Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. London and New York: Methuen.

 

 

 

1986

  • "Text as Interpretation: Mark and After." In Oral Tradition in Literature: Interpretation in Context. John miles Foley, ed. Columbia:

University of Missouri Press. pp. 147-69

 

  • Hopkins, the Self, and God. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press.

 

 

 

1987

  • "Orality-Literacy Studies and the Unity of the Human Race." Oral Tradition 2, A Festschrift for Walter J. Ong (January 1987): 371-82.

 

 

 

1989    

  • "T.S. Eliot and Today's Ecumenism." Religion and Literature 21, no. 2 (Summer 1989): 1-17.

               

  • Realizing Catholicism: Faith, Learning, and the Future. Lecture. Dayton: The University of Dayton, 1989.

 

 

 

1990            

  • "Subway Graffiti and the Design of the Self." In The State of the Language, edited by Christopher Ricks and Leonard Michaels,400-07.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.

 

 

 

1991                       

  • "God's Known Universe and Christian Faith: Pastoral, Homiletic, and Devotional Reflections." Thought 66, no. 262, 1 September 1991, 

241-58.

  

 

 

2000

  • “Where Are We Now?” Some Elemental Cosmological Considerations.” Christianity and Literature 50 (Autumn 2000): 7-13.

 

 

 

2002        

  • “Ecology and Some of Its Future.” Explorations in Media Ecology 1, no. 1 (2002):5-11.          

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