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
On the Origin of Stories
The Medium Is the Massage
Paratexts
Hamlet on the Holodeck
The Coming of the Book
The Rule of Metaphor
The Singer of Tales
After Babel
Metaphors We Live By
Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes.
The Global Village
Structuralism & Semiotics
printing revolution in early modern Europe
Mimesis
Mythologies
S/Z
Imagined Communities
Literary Theory
The Dialogic Imagination
Reflections
How to Do Things with Words