Marshall Mcluhan: Escape Into Understanding: The Authorized BiographyThe originator of such widely used phrases as "the global village" and "the medium is the message, " Marshall McLuhan - the prescient media guru - is finally attracting the critical attention he deserves. In the 1960s, McLuhan blazed the intellectual territory which we are only coming to grips with today. W. Terrence Gordon traces McLuhan's beginnings in the prairie city of Edmonton, Alberta, through his education at Cambridge and teaching in America to his startling breakthroughs in communication while at the University of Toronto. McLuhan's central place in the ferment of the 1960s is evocatively drawn and the formation of his most brilliant insights into the media are clearly explained. This is the first book to mine McLuhan's extensive personal and public writings - journal entries; correspondence with family and luminaries such as Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, Peter Drucker, and Clare Boothe Luce; manuscript notes and files; and all of his publications - to bring us an authoritative, well-rounded, and passionate portrait of one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers. |
Contents
Englands Green and Pleasant Land | 3 |
A Professor in Spite of Himself | 69 |
From California to Cambridge Ricorso | 81 |
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Marshall Mcluhan: Escape Into Understanding a Biography W. Terrence Gordon No preview available - 2004 |
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acoustic space alphabet approach April August Cambridge Canada Canadian Catholic Centre Chesterton Cliché to Archetype communication Corinne McLuhan criticism culture December Diary electronic Eliot Elsie McLuhan English environment Eric McLuhan Ezra Pound Father February figure/ground formal causality global village Gutenberg Galaxy Harold Innis Herbert human I. A. Richards Ibid ideas intellectual Interview with Corinne Interview with Eric James January Jonathan Miller Joyce July June language later Laws of Media Letters Lewis's linguistics literary Louis March Marjorie Marshall and Corinne Marshall McLuhan Maurice McLuhan McLuhan to Elsie McLuhan wrote Mechanical Bride media effects medium metaphor Nashe November October perception probe reading Review rhetoric Saussure Saussure's sense September structure teaching television Thomas Nashe thought Toronto Daily Star Understanding Media University of Toronto visual volume Walter Ong Watson words writing Wychwood Park Wyndham Lewis York