 Available here as.pdfs are a number of lectures Ong gave throughout his career. Currently, all the documents are scans of working typescripts, most with handwritten changes and annotations.
Aphorisms Regarding the Media and the Senses (.pdf, 242 kb)
Description: Five page edited typescript. Ong's notes indicate that he originally wrote these aphorisms for a paper to be delivered at the 1968 MLA Convention and put them aside when the paper developed along other lines.
Celebration as Community in Christ (.pdf, 99 kb)
Description: Five page edited typescript. Ong's notes indicate that this typescript is an abridged and slightly edited transcript of taped talk Ong gave on 9 November 1967, at the Clergy Seminar on "Revolution in Communications," the second in the series of six seminars on "Change: the University and the Church" sponsored by the Experimental Campus Ministry.
The End of the Age of Literacy (.pdf, 518 kb)
Description: Twenty-three page typescript. A 1972 revision of draft of the1960 audio lecture. A much earlier version was published as "The Declining Role of Literacy: Why New Aural-Oral Age of Communications May be Developing" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch 19 April 1959: 5B).
Media Transformed: Electronics and Printed Books (.pdf, 93 kb) and La Métamorphose des média: l'électronique et les genres littéraires (.pdf, 143 kb)
Description: Twelve page (English) or fifteen page (French) typescript. This is one of Ong's Lincoln Lecture tour lectures. It was given in English or French depending upon the country he was in.
MLA 1984 Literacy Studies (.pdf, 184 kb)
Description: Five page edited typescript. Ong's notes indicate that this talk was part of the "What is Literacy Theory" session (program item #190) of the 1984 MLA Convention.
Openness to Death and Life—and to Hope (.pdf, 181 kb)
Description: Seven page edited typescript. Notes indicate that this was discarded from the Interfaces of the Word.
Orality, Literacy, and Personality (.pdf, 186 kb) and Structures psychiques des socitiés orales et des sociétiés lettrées (.pdf, 122 kb)
Description: Twenty page (English) or twenty-eight page (French) typescript. This is one of Ong's Lincoln Lecture tour lectures. It was given in English or French depending upon the country he was in.
Orality, Textuality, and Electronics Unlimited (.pdf, 204 kb)
Description: Twenty-one page edited printout. This lecture was originally presented to the Saint Louis University Women's Council on Nov. 15, 1994, and was given again on Feb. 8, 1995 with a new introduction and conclusion. This .pdf file contains both versions.
The Renewed Liturgy and Modern Man (.pdf, 1.22 mb)
Description: Nineteen page edited typescript. Ong's notes indicate that this is an edited transcript of a talk he gave to the Women's Religious Council and Women Residence Hall Counselors, Saint Louis University, November 8, 1964.
Secondary Orality and Secondary Visualism (.pdf, 88 kb)
Description: Eight page edited typescript. Ong's notes indicate that this lecture was presented on 28 October 1994 and 6 October 1995 to the Doctor of Ministry in Preaching seminar at the Aquinas Institute of Theology, St. Louis, Missouri.
This Side of Oral Culture and of Print (.pdf, 121 kb) and Par dela la culture oral et l'ére typographique (.pdf, 212 kb)
Description: Sixteen page (English) or nineteen page (French) typescript. This is one of Ong's Lincoln Lecture tour lectures. It was given in English or French depending upon the country he was in.
The Sound-Sight Split in Latin (.pdf, 340 kb)
Description: Twenty-one page edited typescript. Notes indicate that it was written around 1964 and was retyped in 1968 to be used as a text for lectures.
Voice, Text, Fundamentalism, Hermeneutic, and God's Word: The Personal Grounding of Truth (.pdf, 213 kb)
Description: Twenty-six page edited typescript. Ong's notes indicate that it was given as a keynote address at the plenary session of the Midwest Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature on March 31, 1995. This lecture is adapted from Ong's "Hermeneutic Forever: Voice, Text, Digitization, and the 'I'" (Oral Tradition 10.1 (1995): 3-36).
Worship at the End of the Age of Literacy (.pdf, 1.76 mb)
Description: Twenty-one page edited typescript. Ong's notes indicate that this typescript is a revised transcription of a lecture and discussion given June 25, 1969 at Worship '69: A Conference on Christian Worship, sponsored by the Ottawa Liturgy Commission, the University of Ottawa and St. Paul University, June 23-26, 1969, University of Ottawa.
The Writer's Audience is Always a Fiction (.pdf, 131 kb) and L'Auditoire de l'écrivain est toujours une fiction (.pdf, 178 kb)
Description: Fourteen page (English) or nineteen page (French) typescript. This is one of Ong's Lincoln Lecture tour lectures. It was given in English or French depending upon the country he was in.
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