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Hopkins, the self, and God
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ISBN: 0802074138 1442623438 9781442623439 0802056881 9780802056887 9780802074133 1442655992 Year: 1986 Volume: 1981 Publisher: Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press,

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General Manley Hopkins was not alone among Victorians in his attention to the human self and to the particularities of things in the world around him, where he savoured the ‘selving or ‘inscape’ of each individual existent. But the intensity of his interest in the self, as a focus of exuberant joy as well as sometimes of anguish, both in his poetry and his prose, marks him out as unique even among his contemporaries. In these studies Professor Ong explores some previously unexamined reasons for Hopkins’ uniqueness, including unsuspected connections between nineteenth-century sensibility and certain substructures of Christian belief.Hopkins was less interested in self-discovery or self-concept than in what might be called the confrontational or obtrusive self – the ‘I,’ ultimately nameless, that each person wakes up to in the morning to find simply there, directly or indirectly present in every moment of consciousness. Hopkins’ concern with the self grew out of a nineteenth-century sensibility which was to give birth to modernity and postmodernity, and which in his case as a Jesuit was especially nourished by the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius Loyola, concerned at root with the self, free choice, and free self-giving. It was also nourished by the Christian belief in the Three Persons in One God, central to Hopkins’ theology courses and personal speculation, and very notable in the Special Exercises. Hopkins appropriated and intensified his Christian beliefs with new nineteenth-century awareness: he writes of the ‘selving’ in God of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Hopkins’ pastoral work, particularly in the confessional, dealing directly with other selves in terms of their free decisions, also gave further force to his preoccupation with the self and freedom. ‘What I do,’ he writes, ‘is me.’Besides being concerned with the self, the most particular of particulars and the paradigm of all sense of ‘presence,’ the Spiritual Exercises in many ways attend to other particularities with an insistence that has drawn lengthy and rather impassioned commentary from the postmodern literary theorist Roland Barthes.Hopkins’ distinctive and often precocious attention to the self and freedom puts him theologically far ahead of many of his fellow Catholics and other fellow Victorians, and gives him his permanent relevance to the modern and postmodern world.


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Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology : Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture
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ISBN: 0801406455 9780801466335 0801466334 9780801406454 9780801478475 0801466326 0801478472 1322504393 Year: 1971

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This is not a book on rhetoric in any narrow sense, but rather concerns its general ambiance and also some of its quite specific manifestations. The thirteen chapters that comprise the book move chronologically from the Renaissance up to the present time. Chapter 2 shows the continuity of verbal expression during the English Renaissance with earlier speech and thought patterns before the invention of writing. In the third chapter, a detailed report is given on the entire production of English-language books on rhetoric and poetic and literary criticism or theory during the Tudor age, from the late 15th through the beginning of the 17th century. The fourth chapter indicates the central significance of the art of memory. The chapters from 5 through 12 treat the interrelationships between social institutions and modes of thought and expression (Latin Language Study as a Renaissance Puberty Rite; Ramist Classroom Procedure and the Nature of Reality; Ramist Method and the Commercial Mind; Swift on the Mind: Satire in a Closed Field; Psyche and the Geometers; Associationist Critical Theory; J. S. Mill's Pariah Poet; Romantic Difference and the Poetics of Technology; and The Literate Orality of Popular Culture Today). The final chapter centers on the history of the humanities to show that they have not been the same in all ages, and that they are always in a state of crisis.

Interfaces of the word
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ISBN: 0801492408 080141105X 132250413X 0801466318 080146630X 9780801466311 9780801411052 9780801492402 Year: 1977 Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell University Press

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In Interfaces of the World, Walter J. Ong explores the effects on consciousness of the word as it moves through oral to written to print and electronic culture.


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Fighting for Life : Contest, Sexuality, and Consciousness
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ISBN: 0801413427 9780801466298 0801466296 9780801413421 9780801478451 0801466288 0801478456 1322504423 Year: 2012 Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press,

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"Fighting for Life is a book about contest, the agonia of the Greek arena, and its roots in male life, especially academia. Ong describes this work as an 'excavation' which was prompted by his previous explorations of such areas as the characteristics of oral and literate cultures, Peter Ramus and his 16th-century intellectual milieu, and the early dominance and more recent decline of classical rhetoric in education. In Fighting for Life, he weaves the results of a year's study of agonistic structures running through the biological, social, and noetic worlds. Describing his text as an 'essay in noobiology,' the biological roots of human consciousness, Ong claims that 'contest has been a major factor in organic evolution and it turns out to have been a major, and seemingly essential, factor in intellectual development.' . . . The work is a valuable synthesis of a wide body of research and theory."-Rhetoric Society Quarterly


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Ramus : method, and the decay of dialogue from tha art of discourse to the art of reason
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Year: 1958 Publisher: Cambridge (MA) : Harvard University Press,

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Retrouver la parole : introduction à une histoire de la culture et de la religion
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Year: 1971 Publisher: Tours-Paris : Nouvelles Editions Mame,

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The presence of the word : some prolegomena for cultural and religious history
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Year: 1977 Publisher: New Haven (Conn.) : Yale university press,

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The presence of the word : some prolegomena for cultural and religious history.
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Year: 1977 Publisher: New Haven (Conn.) : Yale university press,

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Retrouver la parole : introductions à l'histoire de la culture et de la religion
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Year: 1971 Publisher: Tours : Mame,

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Ramus, method, and the decay of dialogue : from the art of discourse to the art of reason.
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Year: 1958 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.) : Harvard university press,

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Logic. --- Ramus, Petrus,

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