What to Read After Orality and Literacy
Readers who loved Orality and Literacy by Walter J. Ong keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Orality and Literacy is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Orality and Literacy
Understanding Media
The Gutenberg Galaxy
The printing press as an agent of change
Paratexts
The medium is the massage
The singer of tales
The Rule of Metaphor
Hamlet on the holodeck
On the origin of stories
After Babel
Metaphors We Live By
Propaganda: the formation of men's attitudes.
Structuralism & semiotics
Mimesis
Mythologies
S/Z
Imagined communities
Literary theory
The dialogic imagination
Reflections
How to do things with words
Différence et répétition
The New American Poetry, 1945-1960
Image, music, text