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(7) MacDonald's Luke and Vergil: Imitations of Classical Greek Literature (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015);

(8) MacDonald's The Dionysian Gospel: The Fourth Gospel and Euripides (Minneapolis: Fortress P, 2017);

(9) Keith D. Miller's Voice of Deliverance: The Language of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Its Sources (New York: Free P, 1992);

(10) Miller's Martin Luther King's Biblical Epic: His Final, Great Speech (Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2012);

(11) Harvey Cox's The Market as God (Cambridge, MA; and London: Harvard UP, 2016).

But enough examples of works about commonplaces and composing processes that can be related to Ong's discussion of commonplaces and composing practices!

The following works amplify and support Ong's discussion of the inward turn of consciousness in Orality and Literacy (pp. 178-79) and elsewhere has also been studied in various ways in the following scholarly works, for example:

(1) Bernard Williams' Shame and Necessity (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and Oxford: U of California P, 1993);

(2) Erich Fromm's You Shall Be As Gods: A Radical Interpretation of the Old Testament and Its Tradition (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966);

(3) M. David Litwa's Becoming Divine: An Introduction to Deification in Western Culture (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books/ Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2013);

(4) Litwa's Desiring Divinity: Self-deification in Early Jewish and Christian Mythmaking (New York: Oxford UP, 2016);

(5) Litwa's The Early Christian Depiction of Jesus as a Mediterranean God (Minneapolis: Fortress P, 2014);

(6) Litwa's We Are Being Transformed: Deification in Paul's Soteriology (berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2012);

(7) Norman Russell's The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition (Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 2004);

(8) Philip Cary's Augustine's Invention of the Inner Self: The Legacy of a Christian Platonist (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000);

(9) Ineke van 't Spijker's Fictions of the Inner Life: Religious Literature and Formation of the Self in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2004);

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Thomas James Farrell is professor emeritus of writing studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD). He started teaching at UMD in Fall 1987, and he retired from UMD at the end of May 2009. He was born in 1944. He holds three degrees from Saint Louis University (SLU): B.A. in English, 1966; M.A.(T) in English 1968; Ph.D.in higher education, 1974. On May 16, 1969, the editors of the SLU student newspaper named him Man of the Year, an honor customarily conferred on an administrator or a faculty member, not on a graduate student -- nor on a woman up to that time. He is the proud author of the book (more...)
 

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