Sloane, Thomas O. On the Contrary: The Protocol of Traditional Rhetoric. Washington, D.C.: CatholicUniversity of America Press, 1997. Thomas O. Sloane focuses on the pro-and-con debate protocol in traditional rhetoric in Western culture. But not only the verbal art known as rhetoric, but also the verbal art known as dialectic inculcated the spirit of pro-and-con debate. In Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue: From the Art of Discourse to the Art of Reason (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1958), Walter J. Ong shows how Peter Ramus (1515-1572) and Ramism in effect moved away from the protocol of pro-and-con debate in favor of setting forth one's own line of argument without explicit reference to real or imaginary adversarial positions or possible objections.
Van Gennep, Arnold. The Rites of Passage, with an introduction by Solon T. Kimball, translated from the 1908 French original by Monika B. Vizedom and Gabrielle L. Caffee. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960.
Whitman, Cedric H. Homer and the Heroic Tradition. Cambridge, Massachusetts: HarvardUniversity Press, 1958.
SELECTED WORKS ABOUT THE INWARD TURN OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Armstrong, Nancy and Leonard Tennenhouse. The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life. Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, 1992.
Brakke, David. Demons and the Making of the Monk: Spiritual Combat in Early Christianity. Cambridge, Massachusetts; and London, England: HarvardUniversity Press, 2006.
Bloom, Harold. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. New York: Riverhead Books/ Penguin Putnam, 1998. Very accessible, but overflowing with hyperbolic claims.
Cary, Phillip. Augustine's Invention of the Inner Self: The Legacy of a Christian Platonist. Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press, 2000.
Connor, James L. The Dynamic of Desire: Bernard J. F. Lonergan, S.J., on the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. St. Louis, Missouri: Institute of Jesuit Sources, 2006.
Kahler, Erich. The Inward Turn of Narrative, translated from the original 1970 German by Richard Winston and Clara Winston. Princeton, Pennsylvania: PrincetonUniversity Press, 1973.
Low, Anthony. Aspects of Subjectivity: Society and Individuality from the Middle Ages to Shakespeare and Milton. Pittsburg, Pennsylvania: DuquesneUniversity Press, 2003.
Maus, Katharine Eisaman. Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Ong, Walter J. "The Writer's Audience Is Always a Fiction." PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association, 90, 1 (January 1975): 9-22. Very accessible. Reprinted in An Ong Reader: Challenges for Further Inquiry, edited by Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup (Cresskill, New Jersey: Hampton Press, 2002: 405-27).
Ong, Walter J. Hopkins, the Self, and God. Toronto; Buffalo; London: University of Toronto Press, 1986. Very accessible. Ong's 1981 Alexander Lectures at the University of Toronto.
Renevy, Denis. Language, Self and Love: Hermeneutics in the Writings of Richard Rolfe and the Commentaries on the Song of Songs. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2001.
Riesman, David with Nathan Glazer and Reuel Denney. The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character, abridged and revised edition with a foreword by Todd Gitlin. New Haven, Connecticut; and London, England: YaleUniversity Press, 2000. Very accessible.
