Electrifying Classical Rhetoric: Ancient Media, Modern Technology, and Contemporary Composition.

Abstract

Electronic discourse, or secondary orality, compels us to reappropriate the writing and speaking careers of Gorgias, Isocrates, and Plato, among others, as new sources for reflection and action in rhetoric and in the humanities in general.1 One of the writers to recognize this cultural necessity is Walter J. Ong, who writes in The Presence of the Word that classical culture in all its aspects must be reconsidered in light of the emergence of secondary orality:

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