Orality and Literacy in Transatlantic Perspective
This article considers Walter Ong’s contribution on the thirtieth anniversary of 'Orality and Literacy' and revises some of his conclusions about the role of rhetoric in literary culture. It then considers the transatlantic rise of political oratory as an influential genre and analyses its...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2014-05-01
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| Series: | 19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century |
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| Online Access: | http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/687 |