Transformations: The Rhetorics of Feminism (Paperback)

from amydross

Ong raises a lot of interesting ideas, but his scholarship strikes me as anything but rigorous. I get the feeling that he can stretch his examples to support any point he happens to wish to make. I was convinced by his argument that particular media inform content and may even structure conscious...

from amydross

Ong raises a lot of interesting ideas, but his scholarship strikes me as anything but rigorous. I get the feeling that he can stretch his examples to support any point he happens to wish to make. I was convinced by his argument that particular media inform content and may even structure conscious...

from katie.ann

Perhaps one of the most important books I've read. The accessible theory rendered in fresh langauge makes the nuance of the arguments all the more effective. Secondary Orality is a fascinating idea and Ong does a masterful job of exploring how human cognition has been affected in its engagement w...

from breadhat

This is a wonderful book, the rare teaching text that both sums up the prior literature masterfully and offers up its own incisive analysis. I highly recommend this book for an introduction to the field. I will be following up the references in it for quite some time.

from breadhat

This is a wonderful book, the rare teaching text that both sums up the prior literature masterfully and offers up its own incisive analysis. I highly recommend this book for an introduction to the field. I will be following up the references in it for quite some time.