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BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS

 

 

SCHOLARLY BOOKS

Walter Ong’s Contributions to Cultural Studies: The Phenomenology of the Word and I-Thou Communication. Rev. ed. Media Ecology Series. New York: Hampton Press, 2012.

Walter Ong’s Contributions to Cultural Studies: The Phenomenology of the Word and I-Thou Communication. Media Ecology Series. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2000. Pages: xxiv + 309.

 

EDITED SCHOLARLY BOOKS

Of Ong and Media Ecology: Essays in Communication, Composition, and Literary Studies. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Media Ecology Series. New York: Hampton Press, 2012. Pages: vi + 357. A collection of fourteen essays by diverse hands.

An Ong Reader: Challenges for Further Inquiry. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Media Ecology Series. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2002. Pages: xviii + 566.

Faith and Contexts: Volume Four: Additional Essays and Studies 1947-1996. By Walter J. Ong, S.J. With a foreword by Thomas J. Farrell. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Studies in Religion and the Social Order Series. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999. Pages: xxxiv + 278. (Scholars Press was the publishing arm of the American Academy of Religion until the end of 1999; the volumes in this sponsored series were subsequently distributed by Rowman & Littlefield.)

Faith and Contexts: Volume Three: Further Essays 1952-1990. By Walter J. Ong, S.J. With a preface by Thomas J. Farrell. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Studies in Religion and the Social Order Series. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995. Pages: xxvi + 268. (Subsequently distributed by Rowman & Littlefield.)

Communication and Lonergan: Common Ground for Forging the New Age. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Communication, Culture & Theology Series. Kansas City: Sheed & Ward, 1993. Pages: xxxviii + 374. (Now distributed by Rowman & Littlefield.)

Faith and Contexts: Volume One: Selected Essays and Studies 1952-1991. By Walter J. Ong, S.J. With an introduction by Thomas J. Farrell. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Studies in Religion and the Social Order Series. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1992. Pages: lvi + 238. (Subsequently distributed by Rowman & Littlefield.)

Faith and Contexts: Volume Two: Supplementary Studies 1946-1989. By Walter J. Ong, S.J. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Studies in Religion and the Social Order Series. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1992 (now distributed by Rowman & Littlefield). Pages: vi + 256.

Media, Consciousness, and Culture: Explorations of Walter Ong's Thought. Ed. Bruce E. Gronbeck, Thomas J. Farrell, and Paul A. Soukup. Communication and Human Values Series. Newbury Park, CA; London; and New Delhi: Sage, 1991. Pages: xviii + 272.

 

ESSAYS IN SCHOLARLY BOOKS

“Afterword.” Walter Ong’s Contributions to Cultural Studies: The Phenomenology of the Word and I-Thou Communication. Thomas J. Farrell. New York: Hampton Press, 2012.

“Introduction: Ong’s Phenomenological History of the Noosphere.” With Paul A. Soukup. Of Ong and Media Ecology: Essays in Communication, Composition, and Literary Studies. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. New York: Hampton Press, 2012. 1-12.

“Ong’s Call for a Revolution in Our Thinking.” Of Ong and Media Ecology: Essays in Communication, Composition, and Literary Studies. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. New York: Hampton Press, 2012. 45-70.

“Ong’s Work and College Writing Instruction.” Of Ong and Media Ecology: Essays in Communication, Composition, and Literary Studies. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. New York: Hampton Press, 2012. 303-24.

“Oral Culture.” The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences. Ed. Patrick Colm Hogan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 572-74.

“Getting Our Bearings about Western Culture and Islamist Terrorism Today: Walter J. Ong Versus Sayyid Qutb as Guide.” Valuation and Media Ecology: Ethics, Morals, and Laws. Ed. Corey Anton. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2010. 205-37.

“Walter J. Ong.” The Literary Encyclopedia (Online). Ed. Robert Clark.
URL: <http://www.litency.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3420>. Published 23 March 2007.

“Orality, Oral Culture, Print Culture (10,000 BCE-present).” The Literary Encyclopedia (Online). Ed. Robert Clark.
URL: <http://www.litency.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=796>. Published 2 April 2007.

“Walter J. Ong.” The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism (Online edition). Ed. Michael Groden, Martin Kreisworth, and Imre Szeman. Published online in 2007.

“Introduction: Walter J. Ong’s Work and Western Culture.” An Ong Reader: Challenges for Further Inquiry. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Media Ecology Series. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2002. 1-68.

“Preface to the 2000 Paperback Edition.” The Presence of the Word: Some Prolegomena for Cultural and Religious History. By Walter J. Ong, S.J. 1967. Binghamton, NY: Global Publications, 2000. xiii-xxvi.

“Foreword: Walter Ong and Harold Bloom.” Faith and Contexts: Volume Four: Additional Studies and Essays 1947-1996. By Walter J. Ong, S.J. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999. vii-xxx.

"Faulkner and Male Agonism."  Time, Memory, and the Verbal Arts: Essays on Walter Ong's Thought. Ed. Dennis Weeks and Jane Hoogestraat. Cranbury, NJ: Susquehanna University Press/Associated University Presses, 1998. 203-21.

"Preface."  Faith and Contexts: Volume Three: Further Essays 1952-1990. By Walter J. Ong, S.J. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995. ix-xxiii.

"A Defense for Requiring Standard English." Reprinted in Rhetoric: Concepts, Definitions, and Boundaries. Ed. William A. Covino and David A. Jolliffe. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1995: 667-78.
            Reprinted from Pre/Text, 7 (1986): 165-80.

"Preface: Transforming the Wasteland." With Paul A. Soukup. Communication and Lonergan: Common Ground for Forging the New Age. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Kansas City: Sheed & Ward, 1993. xvii-xxxvii. Dr. Farrell was largely responsible for writing the preface.

"Writing, the Writer, and Lonergan: Authenticity and Intersubjectivity."  Communication and Lonergan: Common Ground for Forging the New Age. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Kansas City: Sheed & Ward, 1993. 23-47.

"Eric Voegelin on Plato and the Sophists."  Communication and Lonergan: Common Ground for Forging the New Age. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Kansas City: Sheed & Ward, 1993. 108-36.

"An Introduction to Walter J. Ong's Work."  Faith and Contexts: Volume One: Selected Essays and Studies 1952-1991. By Walter J. Ong, S.J. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1992. xix-lv.
36-page adapted and expanded version of the 18-page "An Overview to Walter Ong's Work" from Media, Consciousness, and Culture.

"An Overview of Walter J. Ong's Work."  Media, Consciousness, and Culture: Explorations of Walter Ong's Thought. Ed. Bruce E. Gronbeck, Thomas J. Farrell, Paul A. Soukup. Newbury Park, CA; London; and New Delhi: Sage, 1991. 25-43.

"Secondary Orality and Consciousness Today."  Media Consciousness, and Culture: Explorations of Walter Ong's Thought. Ed. Bruce E. Gronbeck, Thomas J. Farrell, Paul A. Soukup. Newbury Park, CA; London; and New Delhi: Sage, 1991. 194-209.

"Literacy, the Basics, and All That Jazz."  Reprinted in A Sourcebook for Basic Writing Teachers. Ed. Theresa Enos and others. New York: Random House, 1987. 27-44.
            Reprinted from College English 38 (1976-1977): 443-59.

 

ESSAYS IN REFEREED JOURNALS

“The West Versus the Rest: Getting Our Cultural Bearings From Walter J. Ong.” EME: Explorations in Media Ecology, 7.4 (2008): 31-41.

“Walter J. Ong, S.J. (1912-2003): Some Personal Reflections.” EME: Explorations in Media Ecology 3.1 (2004): 17-30.

“In Memoriam: Walter J. Ong, SJ: 1912-2003.” College Composition and Communication 55 (February 2004): 411-13.

“In Memoriam: Walter J. Ong, S.J. (1912-2003).” Christianity and Literature 52 (Summer 2003): 451-56.

“Ong’s Thought as Framework and Orientation for Cultural Studies in the Humanities.” Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature 55 (Summer 2003): 339-54.

"Symposium on Basic Writing, Conflict and Struggle, and the Legacy of Mina Shaughnessy."  College English 55 (Dec. 1993): 889-92, 901-03.
The authors involved in this symposium discuss points raised in two articles in the December 1992 College English.

"How to Kill Higher Education."  Academe 78.6 (Nov./Dec. 1992), 30-33.
This piece was published as part of a cluster of articles accompanying the report of the AAUP Committee G about the use and abuse of temporaries in higher education.

"The Wyoming Resolution, Higher Wizardry, and the Importance of Writing Instruction."  College Composition and Communication 43 (1992): 158-64.
This short piece was among five selections arranged as a symposium of responses about professional concerns in composition. While the Canadian philosopher and theologian Bernard Lonergan is not mentioned explicitly in this essay, the analysis of the intellectual processes involved in writing is deeply indebted to Lonergan's analysis of cognitive processes.

"A Defense for Requiring Standard English."  Pre/Text 7 (1986): 165-80.
Reprinted in Rhetoric: Concepts, Definitions, and Boundaries. Ed. William A. Covino and David Jolliffe (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1995, 667-78). The expanded version of a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication in New Orleans on 15 March 1986.

"Kelber's Breakthrough."  Semeia 39 (1987): 27-45.
The articles in this issue are devoted to considering biblical studies in the light of orality-literacy research. My article is an extended discussion of The Oral and the Written Gospel by Werner H. Kelber.

"Early Christian Creeds and Controversies in the Light of the Orality-Literacy Hypothesis."  Oral Tradition 2 (1987): 132-49.
Most of the articles in this issue of Oral Tradition were presented at the Ong Symposium at Rockhurst College, 29 July to 1 August 1985.

"IQ and Standard English."  College Composition and Communication 34 (1983): 470-84.
Also see "Reply by Thomas J. Farrell" to four counterstatements in CCC 35 (1984): 469-78. This article was one focus of discussion on the forum on literacy at the 1984 MLA Convention, which forum was covered by Ellen K. Coughlin in "Literacy: `Excitement' of New Field Attracts Scholars of Literature," Chronicle of Higher Education, 9 January 1985: 1, 10. The article published in CCC is a shortened version of "IQ, Orality, and Literacy," paper presented at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education on 8 February 1985. An earlier version of this paper was presented at The Highlands Conference on Literacy '78, at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University on 5 May 1978.

"The Lessons of Open Admission."  Journal of General Education 33 (1981): 207-18.

"Scribes and True Authors."  ADE Bulletin Serial no. 61 (May 1979): 9-16.
This paper was presented at the session planned by the Association of Departments of English at the annual meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication in Denver on 30 March 1978, and at the Back to Basics Conference at Lindenwood College in St. Charles, MO, on 8 April 1978.

"The Female and Male Modes of Rhetoric."  College English 40 (1978-1979): 909-21.
            Also see the response to a comment on this article in CE 41 (1980): 590-93.

"Differentiating Writing from Talking."  College Composition and Communication 29 (1978): 346-50.

"Developing Literacy: Walter J. Ong and Basic Writing."  Journal of Basic Writing 2 (Fall/Winter 1978): 30-51.

"Literacy, the Basics, and All That Jazz."  College English 38 (1976-1977): 443-59.
Reprinted in A Sourcebook for Basic Writing Teachers. Ed. Theresa Enos. New York: Random House, 1987. 27-44.

"Reading in the Community College."  College English 37 (1975-1976): 40-46.

"Open Admissions, Orality, and Literacy."  Journal of Youth and Adolescence 3 (1974): 247-60.