7. Ramist Method and the Commercial Mind

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface vii
3. Contents xi
4. 1. Rhetoric and the Origins of Consciousness 1
5. 2. Oral Residue in Tudor Prose Style 23
6. 3. Tudor Writings on Rhetoric, Poetic, and Literary Theory 48
7. 4. Memory as Art 104
8. 5. Latin Language Study as a Renaissance Puberty Rite 113
9. 6. Ramist Classroom Procedure and the Nature of Reality 142
10. 7. Ramist Method and the Commercial Mind 165
11. 8. Swift on the Mind: Satire in a Closed Field 190
12. 9. Psyche and the Geometers: Associationist Critical Theory 213
13. 10. J. S. Mill’s Pariah Poet 237
14. 11. Romantic Difference and the Poetics of Technology 255
15. 12. The Literate Orality of Popular Culture Today 284
16. 13. Crisis and Understanding in the Humanities 304
17. Index 337