In my 3,800-word review essay "Paula McDowell's 2017 Book, and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I examine certain statements she makes in her 2017 book The Invention of the Oral: Print Commerce and Fugitive Voices in Eighteenth-Century ...

In my 4,100-word review essay "Perry Miller's Three Essay Collections, and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I highlight certain points from Perry Miller's three essay collections (1956, 1967, and 1979), with special attention to ...

In my 4,200-word review essay "Perry Miller on Melville, and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I highlight what Harvard's Americanist Perry Miller (1905-1963) says about the American novelist and short story writer Herman Melville ...

In my 4,350-word review essay "The Norton Critical Edition of Herman Melville's Pierre, and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I discuss Melville's sensationalistic 1852 novel Pierre; or, The Ambiguities. The 2017 Norton Critical ...

In my 3,750-word review essay "Hershel Parker's 2008 Intellectual Biography of Melville, and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I highlight Parker's triumphant intellectual biography Melville: The Making of the Poet (Northwestern ...