The Orality/Literacy Heuristic: A
Collective Working Bibliography
[This
bibliography-in-progress has been compiled to date (12/5/13) by Paula McDowell from
the suggestions of participants in the June 2013 Folger Faculty Workshop on
"The Orality/Literacy Heuristic." Special thanks to Katie King for
re-organizing it chronologically to show the evolution of these
conversations. At this point, Elyse Martin will be taking over as our
Bibliographer-in-Chief. Please send all corrections to and additional suggestions
for this list to Elyse at elmartin@folger.edu.
She will update the document and include a copy in our Workshop folders in June.]
1734. Le Brun,
"A Method to Learn to Design the Passions." London: J. Huggonson,
1734.
1929. Jakobson,
Roman & Bogatyrev, Petr. “On the Boundary between Studies of Folklore and
Literature,” in Readings in Russian Poetics: Formalist and Structuralist
Views, ed. Ladislav Matejka and Krystyna Pomorska (Ann Arbor: Michigan
Slavic Publications, 1978) 91 – 93.
1960. Lord,
Albert B. The Singer of Tales. 1960. 2nd. edn. ed. Stephen Mitchell and Gregory Nagy. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2000.
1962. McLuhan,
Marshall. The Gutenberg Galaxy:
The Making of Typographic Man.
Toronto: University of Toronto P, 1962.
1963. Havelock, Eric
A. Preface to Plato. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap/Harvard UP,
1963.
1968. Goody,
Jack. ed. Literacy in Traditional Societies. Cambridge UP, 1968. [especially Goody
and Watt, "The Consequences of Literacy," 27-68]
1971. Parry,
Adam, ed. and intro. The Making
of Homeric Verse: The Collected Papers of Milman Parry. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1971.
1974. Bauman,
Richard & Sherzer, Joel, eds. Explorations
in the Ethnography of Speaking. Cambridge University Press; 2 edition 1989.
1977. Goody,
Jack. The Domestication of the
Savage Mind. Cambridge UP,
1977.
1979. Eisenstein,
Elizabeth L. The Printing Press
As An Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformation in
Early-Modern Europe. Cambridge
UP, 1979; in one volume 1980.
1982. Ong, Walter
J. Orality and Literacy: The
Technologizing of the Word.
London: Methuen, 1982.
1984. Lewalski,
Barbara. Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth Century Religious Lyric.
Princeton. 1984.
1984. Street,
Brian V. Literacy in Theory and
Practice. Cambridge UP, 1984.
1986. Baumann,
Gerd, ed. The Written Word:
Literacy in Transition.
Oxford: Clarendon P, 1986. [esp. essay by Keith Thomas on "The
Meaning of Literacy in Early Modern England," 97-131]
1986. Havelock,
Eric A. The Muse Learns to
Write: Reflections on Orality and Literacy from Antiquity to the Present. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1986.
1986. Swearingen,
Jan. "Literate Rhetors and
their Illiterate Audiences: the Orality of Early Literacy." Pre/Text
7 (1986): special issue devoted to "The Literacy/Orality Wars," ed.
Swearingen. [see also introduction by Havelock & concluding interview of
Havelock by Swearingen]
1986. Swearingen,
Jan. "Oral Hermeneutics
During the Transition to Literacy: The Contemporary Debate." Cultural
Anthropology, 1 (1986) 138-56.
1987. Goody,
Jack. The Interface Between the
Written and the Oral.
Cambridge, 1987.
1987. Graff,
Harvey J. The Legacies of
Literacy: Continuities and Contradictions in Western Culture and Society. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana
UP, 1987.
1988. Finnegan,
Ruth. Literacy and Orality:
Studies in the Technology of Communication. Oxford: Basil Blackwell,
1988.
1989.
Patterson, Annabel. Shakespeare and the Popular Voice. Blackwell, 1989.
1990. Stock,
Brian. Listening for the Text:
On the Uses of the Past.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990.
1991. Havelock,
Eric A. "The oral-literate
equation: a formula for the modern mind." In Olson and Torrance, eds., Literacy and Orality, 11-27.
1991. King,
Katie. "Bibliography and a Feminist Apparatus of Literary
Production." TEXT 5: Transactions of the Society for Textual
Scholarship (1991): 91-103. PDF.
1991.
Love, Harold. Scribal
Publication in Seventeenth-Century England. Oxford UP, 1991.
1991. Olson,
David R., and Nancy Torrance, eds.
Literacy and Orality.
Cambridge UP, 1991.
1991. Rivers, Isabel. Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and
Ethics in England, 1660-1780. Cambridge. Vol. 1: 1991. Vol. 2:
2000.
1991. Watt,
Tessa. Cheap Print and Popular
Piety, 1550-1640. Cambridge
UP, 1991.
1993. Fliegelman,
Jay. Declaring Independence: Jefferson, Natural Language, and the Culture of
Performance. Stanford 1993.
1993. Schafer,
Murray. The Tuning of the World. New York: Knopf, 1977. Repr. as The Soundscape: Our Sonic
Environment and the Tuning of the World. Rochester, Vt.: Destiny, 1993.
1994. Boone, E.,
and W. D. Mignolo, eds. Writing
Without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1994.
1994.
Fox, Adam. "Ballads,
Libels and Popular Ridicule in Jacobean England." Past and Present,
145 (1994), 47-83.
1994. Hudson, Nicholas. Writing and European Thought 1600-1830. Cambridge UP, 1994.
1994. Hudson, Nicholas. Writing and European Thought 1600-1830. Cambridge UP, 1994.
1996. King, Katie. Seventeenth-Century Quaker Women. Folger
Library Institute on the Graphic Revolution in Early Modern Europe, June 29,
1996; at: http://fwtfemsub.blogspot.com/
1997.
Fox, Adam. "Rumour,
News and Popular Public Opinion in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England." The
Historical Journal 40 (1997), 592-620.
1998. Balkin,
J.M. & Levinson, Sanford. "Law as Performance" (1998).
1998. Johns,
Adrian. The Nature of the Book:
Print and Knowledge in the Making.
Chicago and London: U of Chicago P, 1998.
1998. Wise, Jennifer. Dionysus
Writes: The Invention of Theatre in Ancient Greece. Ithaca: Cornell UP,
1998. Esp. Intro. and ch. 1, “The
ABCs of Writing”
1999.
Biakolo, Emevwo. "On the Theoretical Foundations of Orality and
Literacy." Research in African Literatures 30.2 (1999): 42-65.
1999.
McKenzie, D. F. Bibliography
and the Sociology of Texts.
Cambridge UP, 1999.
2000. Fox,
Adam. Oral and Literate Culture
in England 1500-1700. Oxford:
Clarendon P, 2000.
2000. Larson,
Rebecca. Daughters of Light: Quaker Women Preaching and Prophesying in the
Colonies and Abroad 1700-1775. University of North Carolina. 2000.
(especially Chapter Six, “From Witches to Celebrated Preachers”).
2000. Lord,
Albert B. The Singer of Tales. 1960. 2nd. edn. ed. Stephen Mitchell and Gregory Nagy. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2000.
2000. Rivers, Isabel. Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and
Ethics in England, 1660-1780. Cambridge. Vol. 1: 1991. Vol. 2:
2000.
2000. Schmidt,
Leigh Eric. Hearing Things:
Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard
UP, 2000.
2002. Eisenstein,
Elizabeth L., Anthony Grafton, and Adrian Johns. Forum, "How Revolutionary Was the Print
Revolution?" American Historical Review 107 (2002).
2002. Fox, Adam, and Daniel
Woolf, eds. The Spoken Word: Oral
Culture in Britain, 1500-1850.
Manchester UP, 2002.
[especially the Introduction, Nicholas Hudson's essay on the idea of
oral tradition, Walsham on Catholicism, et al.]
2002. Hudson,
Nicholas. "Constructing Oral
Tradition: The Origins of the Concept in Enlightenment Intellectual
Culture." In Fox and Woolf,
eds., The Spoken Word, 240-55.
2002. Ong, Walter
J. An Ong Reader: Challenges
for Further Inquiry. Ed.
Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup.
Creskill, NJ: Hampton P, 2002.
2004. King, Katie. "Demonstrations & Experiments in
Epistemological Decorum: seventeenth-century Quaker writing technologies and
the Scientific Revolution" (2004). (For Folger Colloquium: Technologies of
the Literal.) Available: http://demoexper.blogspot.com/
2004. King,
Katie. Writing technologies: an introduction. Manuscript in circulation in
print and online before and around 2004; at: http://writtechintro.blogspot.com/
2005. Goring,
Paul. The Rhetoric of Sensibility.
Cambridge UP, 2005.
2005. McCarty, Willard. “Modeling.” Humanities
Computing. Palgrave, 2005.
20-71.
2006.
Keilen, Sean. Vulgar Eloquence:
on the Renaissance Invention of English Literature. Yale UP, 2006.
2006.
McDowell, Paula. “Defoe and the Contagion of the Oral: Modeling Media Shift in A
Journal of the Plague Year.” Publications of the Modern Language
Association, 121:1 (Jan. 2006) 87-106.
2007.
Brantley, Jessica. Reading in
the Wilderness: Private Devotion and Public Performance in Late Medieval
England. Chicago UP, 2007.
2007. Zunshine,
Lisa. “Why Jane Austen Was Different, And Why We May Need Cognitive Science to
See It.” Style 41.3 (2007): 275-99.
2008.
Burke, Peter, and Roy Porter, eds.
The Social History of Language. Cambridge UP, 1987.
2008.
Cheney, Patrick. Shakespeare's
Literary Authorship. Cambridge
UP, 2008.
2008. Echard, Sian. “Coda. The Ghost in the Machine:
Digital Avatars of Medieval Manuscripts.” Printing the Middle Ages. U. of Pennsylvania, 2008. 198-217.
2008. Liu, Alan, "Imagining the New
Media Encounter." In Ray Siemens
and Susan Schreibman, eds., A Companion to Digital Literary Studies. Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.
2008. McCarty, Willard. “What’s Going
On?” Literary & Linguistic Computing 23:3 (2008) 253-261.
2008. Peters, Julie Stone. "Legal
Performance Good and Bad." Law, Culture and the Humanities (2008),
4: 179-200.
2008. McLane, Maureen N. Balladeering,
Minstrelsy and the Making of British Romantic Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge
UP, 2008.
2008.
Weinmann, Robert, and Douglas Bruster, eds. Shakespeare and the Power of Performance: Stage
and Page in the Elizabethan Theatre. Cambridge UP, 2008.
2009. Handler,
Richard. “Erving Goffman and the
Gestural Dynamics of Modern Selfhood.” In The Politics of Gesture:
Historical Perspectives. Ed. Michael J. Braddick. Past and Present Supplement
4 (2009), 280-300.
2010. Brokaw,
Galen. "Indigenous American Polygraphy and the Dialogic Model of
Media." Ethnohistory 57 (2010).
2010.
Brokaw, Galen. A History of the Khipu. Cambridge UP, 2010.
2010.
Cressy, David. Dangerous Talk. Oxford UP, 2010.
2010. Fumerton,
Patricia, and Anita Guerrini with the assistance of Kris McAbee. Ballads and Broadsides in Britain,
1500-1800. Burlington, VT:
Ashgate, 2010.
2010. Fumerton, Patricia. “Remembering by Dismembering:
Databases, Archiving, and the Recollection of Seventeenth-Century Broadside
Ballads.” In Fumerton & Guerrini, eds., Ballads and Broadsides,
13-34.
2010. Guillory,
John. "Enlightening Mediation." In Siskin, Clifford, and William
Warner, eds. This Is
Enlightenment. 2010.
2010.
Marsh, Christopher. Music and Society in Early Modern England. Cambridge UP, 2010.
2010.
McDowell, Paula. "'The Art of
Printing Was Fatal': Print Commerce and the Idea of Oral Tradition in Long
Eighteenth-Century Ballad Discourse." In Fumerton, Guerrini, and McAbee, eds., Ballads and
Broadsides, 35-56.
2010. McDowell,
Paula. "Mediating Media Past
and Present: Toward a Genealogy of 'Print Culture' and 'Oral
Tradition.'" In Siskin and
Warner, eds., This Is Enlightenment, 229-246.
2010.
Siskin, Clifford, and William Warner, eds. This Is Enlightenment. Chicago: University of Chicago P, 2010. [esp. essays by Guillory, McDowell, and
McLane]
2011.
De Vivo, Filippo, and Brian Richardson. "Scribal Culture in Italy,
1450-1700." Italian Studies 66 (2011).
2011.
Foley, John Miles, founding ed., Oral Composition (Journal: Master Index:
http://journal.oraltradition.org/ (especially Volume 26 No. 2, 2011:
Festschrift for John Miles Foley.
2011. Fox, Adam. "The Emergence of the Scottish Broadside Ballad in the
Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries." Journal of Scottish
Historical Studies 31 (2011), 169-194.
2011. Rivers, Isabel & Wykes, David L.
eds. Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales.
Oxford. 2011.
2012. Drucker, Johanna. “Humanistic
Theory and Digital Scholarship.” In Gold, ed., Debates in the Digital
Humanities, 85-95.
2012. Fox,
Adam. "Vernacular Culture and
Popular Customs in Early Modern England: Evidence from Thomas Machell’s
Westmorland." Cultural and Social History 9 (2012), 329-47.
2012. Gold, Matthew, ed., Debates
in the Digital Humanities. U. of Minnesota, 2012.
2012.
Horodowich, Elizabeth, ed. Journal
of Early Modern History 16 (2012): Special Issue dedicated to oral
communication, with articles on early modern Italy, Europe and Vietnam.
2012. King, Katie. "Khipu: design
affections" (2012). PDF on DocSite; also available at:
http://affectdesign.blogspot.com/p/slides.html
2012. Liu, Alan, “Where is Cultural
Criticism in the Digital Humanities?” In Gold, ed., Debates in the Digital
Humanities, 490-509.
2012.
McDowell, Paula. "Ong and the
Concept of Orality." Religion and Literature 44.2 (Autumn 2012),
for Forum: "The Legacy of Walter J. Ong," forthcoming [proofs on
DocSite]
2012. Ramsay, Stephen, and Geoffrey
Rockwell. “Developing Things:
Notes toward an Epistemology of Building in the Digital Humanities.” In Gold,
ed., Debates in the Digital Humanities, 75-84
2012.
Rospocher, Massimo, ed. Beyond
the Public Sphere: Opinions, Publics, Spaces in Early Modern Europe. Bologna, 2012. Contains several essays on rumor and
oral communication.
2012. Temple,
Kathryn. Revised 18 November 2012. For presentation at "Reinterpreting
Blackstone's 'Commentaries': the Evolution and Influence of a Seminal Text in
National and International Context," Adelaide, Australia, 6 December 2013.
2013. Black,
Andrew. "We Forget the Orator" from "Neutered Rhetoric:
Representations of Orators in the Long Eighteenth Century." Dissertation
2013.
2013. Mulholland,
James. Sounding Imperial:
Poetic Voice and the Politics of Empire 1730-1820. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins, 2013.
2013. Murphy,
Kevin D., and Sally O’Driscoll, eds., Studies in Ephemera: Text and Image in
Eighteenth-Century Print.
Bucknell UP, 2013. [contains essays by McDowell and Fox]
2013. Nelson,
Ingrid. Premodern Media. 2013.