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| Marshall McLuhan |
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| Terrence Gordon |
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| Marshall McLuhan: |
| The Classical Trivium |
| The Place of Thomas Nashe in the Learning of His Time |
| Edited by W. Terrence Gordon |
| In this previously unpublished work, a young Marshall McLuhan, as cultural historian, illuminates the complexities of the classical trivium, provides the first ever close reading of the enigmatic Elizabethan writer Thomas Nashe, and implicitly challenges the reader to accept a new blueprint for literary education. |
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| Ideas that would ground McLuhan’s media analysis of the 1960s and 70s are here in embryo, as he sets out in scrupulous detail the role of grammar (interpretation), dialectic, and rhetoric in classical learning. Under McLuhan’s scholarly microscope, the internal dynamics of the trivium and its purpose are revealed. As is its indispensable role in giving full due to the rich prose of Thomas Nashe. |
In ranging over literature from Cicero to the sixteenth century, McLuhan discovers the source and significance of multiple traditions in Nashe’s writings. Here, more than half a century after it was written, is a fresh, insightful, and richly coherent framework for studying Nashe and an unequivocal call for a program of education based on the ambitious and lofty ideal of reintegrating the classical trivium.
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| 292 pages, English |
| Hardcover: 6 ½'' x 10 ¾'' (165 x 273 mm) |
ISBN-13: 978-1-58423-067-0
ISBN-10: 1-58423-067-3 |
$ 39.95 |
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| Paperback: 6'' x 10 ½'' (155 x 267 mm) |
| ISBN: 978-1-58423-235-3 |
$ 29.95 |
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| Marshall McLuhan |
| One of the most controversial and original thinkers of our time, McLuhan is universally regarded as the father of communications and media studies. |
| But he is far more than that. A charismatic figure, whose remarkable perception propelled him onto the international stage, McLuhan became the prophet of the new information age. |
| In his own time he drew both accolades and criticism for his intuitive vision, his steady stream of thought-provoking metaphors, and fast-forward glimpses into a world where software would eclipse hardware and the power of mass media would eclipse the power of government. The information superhighway fulfilled his perceptive observation that the world would ultimately become a "global village." |
| Websites: |
The official site of:
The Marshall McLuhan Estate |
Marshall McLuhan / Finnegans
Wake Reading Club |
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