Available here as.pdfs are a number of unpublished articles and essays, fragments, and notes taken from Ong's scholarship and teaching files.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Unpublished Articles and Essays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) Language as Hermeneutic
Description: Nine page annotated typescript.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) Language as Hermeneutic
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) Language as Hermeneutic
Description: One page annotated typescript."Holism in Our Approach to and/or Understanding of Language and Thought" (.pdf, 22.3 kb) Language as Hermeneutic
Description: One page annotated typescript."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) Language as Hermeneutic
Description: One page annotated typescript.Language as Hermeneutics Subject Outline (.pdf, 44 kb) Language as Hermeneutic
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) Language as Hermeneutic
Description: Four page annotated typescript."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) Language as Hermeneutic
Description: One page annotated typescript."Theorems on Language, Technology, and Community: The Embedding of Thought in the Material World" (.pdf, 22 kb) Language as Hermeneutic
Description: Two page typescript."Words Are Ultimately Defined by the Nonverbal" (.pdf, 28.3 kb) Language as Hermeneutic
Description: One page typescript.