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According to Wikipedia, Walter Jackson Ong was an American Jesuit priest, professor of English literature, cultural and religious historian, and philosopher. His major interest was in exploring how the transition from orality to literacy influenced culture and changed human consciousness. In 1978 he served as elected president of the Modern Language Association.

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Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (1984) (4590)
Orality and literacy (1982) (1189)
The Writer's Audience is Always a Fiction (1975) (480)
Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue (1958) (415)
The Presence of the Word: Some Prolegomena for Cultural and Religious History (1970) (364)
Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue: From the Art of Discourse to the Art of Reason (2005) (237)
Interfaces of the Word: Studies in the Evolution of Consciousness and (1979) (218)
Ramus and Talon Inventory: A Short-Title Inventory of the Published Works of Peter Ramus (1515-1572) and of Omer Talon (ca.1510-1562) in Their Orignal and in Their Variously Altered Forms (1958) (213)
Writing is a technology that restructures thought (1992) (207)
Fighting for Life: Contest, Sexuality, and Consciousness (1981) (178)
Literacy and Orality in Our Times. (1980) (134)
Interfaces Of The Word (1977) (116)
Rhetoric, Romance, And Technology (1971) (105)
Oral Poetry: An Introduction (1990) (97)
ADDITIONAL READINGS (1964) (80)
The Oral and the Written Gospel: The Hermeneutics of Speaking and Writing in the Synoptic Tradition, Mark, Paul, and Q (1983) (70)
Historical Backgrounds of Elizabethan and Jacobean Punctuation Theory (1944) (60)
Style, Rhetoric and Rhythm (1966) (59)
Classical Rhetoric in English Poetry (1971) (51)
African Talking Drums and Oral Noetics (1977) (48)
Orality, Literacy, and Medieval Textualization (1984) (47)
Oral Residue in Tudor Prose Style (1965) (46)
An Ong Reader: Challenges For Further Inquiry (2002) (35)
From Allegory to Diagram in the Renaissance Mind: A Study in the Significance of the Allegorical Tableau (1959) (35)
Ramus And Talon Inventory (1958) (26)
The Living and the Dead: A Study of the Symbolic Life of Americans (1961) (26)
The barbarian within, and other fugitive essays and studies (1962) (24)
Hopkins, the Self, and God (1986) (23)
Before Textuality: Orality and Interpretation (1988) (21)
The Barbarian Within (1962) (19)
Wit and Mystery: A Revaluation in Mediaeval Latin Hymnody (1947) (19)
The Province of Rhetoric and Poetic (1942) (18)
Ramist Classroom Procedure and the Nature of Reality (1961) (18)
In the human grain : further explorations of contemporary culture (1967) (17)
Classical and Christian Ideas of World Harmony: Prolegomena to an Interpretation of the Word "Stimmung". Leo Spitzer , Anna Granville Hatcher (1964) (17)
From Mimesis to Irony: The Distancing of Voice (1976) (14)
Agonistic structures in academia: Past to present (1974) (14)
Hermeneutic Forever: Voice, Text, Digitization, and the "I" (1995) (14)
Orality-Literacy Studies and the Unity of the Human Race (1987) (14)
Calvinism and the Amyraut Heresy (1971) (12)
Franz Kafka: A Biography (1948) (12)
McLuhan as Teacher: The Future Is a Thing of the Past. (1981) (12)
Rhetoric and Philosophy in Renaissance Humanism (1971) (12)
Maranatha: Death and Life in the Text of the Book (1977) (11)
Voice as Summons for Belief: Literature, Faith, and the Divided Self (1958) (11)
A Dialectic of Aural and Objective Correlatives (1958) (11)
Information and/or Communication: Interactions (1996) (11)
Peter Ramus and the Naming of Methodism: Medieval Science Through Ramist Homiletic (1953) (10)
In The Human Grain (1967) (10)
The Anatomy of the World (1959) (10)
Reading, Technology, and the Nature of Man: An Interpretation (1980) (9)
The Expanding Humanities and the Individual Scholar (1967) (9)
Wired for Sound: Teaching, Communications, and Technological Culture. (1960) (9)
American Catholic Crossroads: Religious-Secular Encounters in the Modern World (1981) (8)
Scholae in liberales artes (1970) (7)
Media Transformation: The Talked Book. (1972) (7)
Newman's Essay on Development in its Intellectual Milieu (1946) (6)
Frontiers in American Catholicism. (1958) (6)
Why Talk? A Conversation about Language with Walter J. Ong. The National Humanities Faculty Why Series. (1973) (6)
The Meaning of the "New Criticism" (1943) (6)
Digitization Ancient and Modern: Beginnings of Writing and Today's Computers: (Part One) (1998) (6)
The Agonistic Base of Scientifically Abstract Thought: Issues in Fighting for Life: Contest, Secuality, and Consciousness (1982) (5)
Writing is a Humanizing Technology. (1983) (5)
Knowledge and the Future of Man: An International Symposium (1968) (4)
A Comment on "Arguing about Literacy" (1988) (4)
Ramus and the Transit to the Modern Mind (1955) (4)
Educationists and the Tradition of Learning (1958) (3)
Image and Meaning: Metaphoric Traditions in Renaissance Poetry (1961) (3)
Words, Tools, and Technology (1983) (3)
Mimesis and the following of Christ (1994) (3)
AGRICOLA CHECK LIST (1958) (3)
Crisis and Understanding in the Humanities. (1969) (3)
Presidential Address 1978: The Human Nature of Professionalism (1979) (2)
Preface to Plato (1964) (2)
II AMERICAN CULTURE AND MORALITY (1963) (2)
Kafka’s Castle in the West (1947) (2)
Literature in the Light of the Emblem (1981) (2)
THE JINNEE IN THE WELL-WROUGHT URN (1954) (2)
Psyche and the Geometers: Aspects of Associationist Critical Theory (1951) (2)
Swift on the Mind: The Myth of Asepsis (1954) (2)
Hostility, Literacy, and Webster III (1964) (2)
God's Known Universe and Christian Faith Pastoral, Homiletic, and Devotional Reflections (1991) (2)
Realizing Catholicism: Faith, Learning, and the Future (1989) (2)
Faith and Contexts: vol.1: Selected Essays and Studies, 1952-1991 (1991) (2)
Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (1939) (2)
Voice as Summons for Belief (1958) (2)
Is literacy passe (1960) (2)
8. Ramus: Rhetoric and the Pre-Newtonian Mind (1974) (1)
Technology and Culture in Perspective (1968) (1)
The Catholic Church's interest in knowledge and research. (1957) (1)
Literature, Threat and Conquest (1966) (1)
Faith and contexts, Vol. 4, Additional studies and essays, 1947-1996 (1999) (1)
Faith and Contexts: vol. 3: Further Essays, 1952-1990 (1995) (1)
The Green Knight's Harts and Bucks (1950) (1)
St. Ignatius' Prison-Cage and the Existentialist Situation (1954) (1)
Comment: Voice, Print, and Culture. (1970) (1)
TRAINING IN DIALECTIC (1958) (1)
Where are We Now?: Some Elemental Cosmological Considerations (2000) (1)
understanding of the total significance of many intellectual develop (1967) (1)
Finitude and Frustration: Considerations on Brod's Kafka (1948) (1)
American Catholicism and America (1952) (1)
Spenser's View and the Tradition of the "Wild" Irish (1942) (1)
Book Review: The Catholic Dimension in Higher Education (1960) (1)
Notices (1960) (0)
Faith and Contexts: vol. 2: Supplementary Studies, 1946-1989 (1989) (0)
I. PARTICULARITY AND SELF IN HOPKINS' VICTORIAN CONSCIOUSNESS (1993) (0)
The Inward Morning (1959) (0)
Literature, Religion, and Faith: A Brief Position Paper (1967) (0)
Scholae in Liberales Artes. With an Introduction by Walter J. Ong (1970) (0)
Erasmus and His Times (1961) (0)
Book Review: Literature and Theology in Colonial New England (1950) (0)
"Arts and Sciences at Padua: The Studium before 1350," by Nancy G. Siraisi (1975) (0)
Ong , Walter . · Orality , Literacy , and Modern Media (2007) (0)
III. ACADEMIC THEOLOGY AND HOPKINS' SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS (1993) (0)
Evolution and Cyclicism In Our Time (1959) (0)
Toward a Theology of Merriment (1967) (0)
The Merchant of Prato (1958) (0)
Imitation and the Object of Art (1940) (0)
The Learned Doctor William Ames (1974) (0)
II. SELF AND DECISION IN ASCETIC TRADITION (1993) (0)
MLA volume 92 issue 3 Cover and Front matter (1977) (0)
THE RAMIST CONTROVERSIES (1958) (0)
Reviews of Books (1976) (0)
Renaissance Ideas and the American Catholic Mind (1954) (0)
EFFECTS OF TECHNOLOGY ON ACADEMIC RESEARCH 1 The Effects of New Communication and Information Technologies on Academic Research Paradigms Submitted to AoIR 3 . 0 Competition for Student Papers (2002) (0)
Organized 1883 Incorporated 1900 (1935) (0)
Book Review:The Noise of Culture: Literary Texts in a World of Information William R. Paulson (1989) (0)
Joyce and Aquinas (1957) (0)
12 Epilogue (2010) (0)
The Implications of Literacy (1984) (0)
Synchronic Present: The Academic Future of Modern Literature in America (1962) (0)
Myth and the Cabalas: Adventures in the Unspoken (1950) (0)
Recent Studies in the English Renaissance (1964) (0)
IV. MODERNITY: FAITH BEYOND SCANDAL (1993) (0)
Mary J. Carruthers, The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture . (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature.) Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xiv, 393; 30 black-and-white illustrations. $54.50. (1992) (0)
A Ramist Translation of Euripides (1964) (0)
Symbol and Metaphor in Human Experience (1950) (0)
From Memory to Written Record: England, 1066-1307 (1979) (0)
SIGNS AND ABBREVIATIONS (1958) (0)
A History of Esthetics (1940) (0)
The Development of Literary Criticisms A Media Perspective (2007) (0)
Hopkins: Not for Burning (1961) (0)
Tomorrow is Already Here (1954) (0)
Abstracts (2000) (0)
Darwin's vision and Christian perspectives (1960) (0)
Friday Afternoon—28 December Meetings (1973) (0)
Oral memory, the story line and characterization (2003) (0)
MLA volume 92 issue 5 Cover and Front matter (1977) (0)
1978: The Human Nature of Professionalism (2000) (0)
"The Logic of the Articles in Traditional Philosophy: A Contribution to the Study of Conceptual Structures," by E. M. Barth, trans. E. M. Barth and T. C. Potts (1977) (0)
William Riley Parker Prize (1991) (0)

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