Farrell, Thomas2021-10-232021-10-232021-10This version was not previously published.https://hdl.handle.net/11299/225075See the above abstract.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 Britain (University of Chicago Press), about the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian Walter J. Ong's conceptualizations and terminology. However, after examining her polemical points, I am not persuaded to stop using or referring to Ong's conceptualizations and terminology.enWalter J. Ong, Paula McDowellScholarly Text or Essay