Available here as.pdfs are a number of unpublished articles and essays, fragments, and notes taken from Ong's scholarship and teaching files. Currently, all the documents are scans of working typescripts, most with handwritten changes and annotations.
 Unpublished Articles and Essays
Comment on Carruthers' "Inventional Mnemonics and the Ornaments of Style: The Case of Etymology" (.pdf, 84.6 kb)
Description: Seven page annotated typescript. A Comment on Mary Carruthers' "Inventional Mnemonics and the Ornaments of Style: The Case of Etymology" (Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate 2.2 (1992): 103-114).
Language as Hermeneutic Prologue (.pdf, 58 kb)
Description: Nine page annotated typescript. This is the prologue from the unfinished manuscript Language as Hermeneutic.
Fragments
"Presence of the Word: Fragment 1" (.pdf, 38.3 kb)
Description: Three page lightly annotated typescript. This material, apparently used as lecture material, was cut from The Presence of the Word: Some Prolegomena for Cultural and Religious History.
"Presence of the Word: Fragment II" (.pdf, 86.1 kb)
Description: Six page lightly annotated typescript. This material, apparently used as lecture material, was cut from The Presence of the Word: Some Prolegomena for Cultural and Religious History.
"Presence of the Word: Fragment III: Ancient Roots of Renaissance Rhetoric" (.pdf, 161 kb)
Description: Twelve page lightly annotated typescript. This material, apparently used as lecture material, was cut from The Presence of the Word: Some Prolegomena for Cultural and Religious History.
"Presence of the Word: Fragment IV" (.pdf, 37.5 kb)
Description: Three page lightly annotated typescript. This material, apparently used as lecture material, was cut from The Presence of the Word: Some Prolegomena for Cultural and Religious History.
Writing and Reading Texts are Speech Events (.pdf, 21.2 kb)
Description: Two page typescript. This short piece, dated Dec. 1990, appears to be the beginnings of an unfinished article related to Language as Hermeneutic.
Notes
"Discourse and Silence" (.pdf, 21.8 kb)
Description: One page annotated typescript. Lecture notes from the Language as Hermeneutic course files.
"Holism in Our Approach to and/or Understanding of Language and Thought" (.pdf, 22.3 kb)
Description: One page annotated typescript. Lecture notes from the Language as Hermeneutic course files.
"Interpretation (Hermeneutic)" (.pdf, 90.1 kb)
Description: Three page annotated typescript. Lecture notes from the Language as Hermeneutic course files. A note cross-references "Words Are Ultimately Defined by the Nonverbal."
"Intertextuality as Retrieval of Orality" (.pdf, 20.4 kb)
Description: One page annotated typescript. Lecture notes from the Language as Hermeneutic course files.
Language as Hermeneutics Subject Outline (.pdf, 44 kb)
Description: Two page annotated typescript. An outline, apparently incomplete, listing 32 subjects to be covered in Language as Hermeneutic.
"Literacy, Orality, Truth, and Method" (.pdf, 98.3 kb)
Description: Four page annotated typescript. Lecture notes from the Language as Hermeneutic course files.
"Orality and Literacy Outline" (.pdf, 52.6 kb)
Description: One page annotated typescript. A working outline for Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word.
"Technology of Writing and Its Sequels" (.pdf, 14.6 kb)
Description: One page annotated typescript. Lecture notes from the Language as Hermeneutic course files.
"Theorems on Language, Technology, and Community: The Embedding of Thought in the Material World" (.pdf, 22 kb)
Description: Two page typescript. Lecture notes from the Language as Hermeneutic course files.
"Words Are Ultimately Defined by the Nonverbal" (.pdf, 28.3 kb)
Description: One page typescript. Lecture notes from the Language as Hermeneutic course files.
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