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| Herbert Lottman |
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| Marshall McLuhan |
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| Terrence Gordon |
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| Wyndham Lewis |
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| Vladimir Nabokov |
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| W. Terrence Gordon: |
| Marshall McLuhan |
| Escape Into Understanding — A Biography |
More than just a detailed life story, this fine and
carefully written biography actually does justice to McLuhan’s ideas. Gordon evocatively portrays |
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| McLuhan’s central place in the ferment of the 1960s and explains the formation of his brilliant insights into the media. |
| Escape Into Understanding is a discriminating and passionate portrait of one of the 20th Century’s truly great men. It traces McLuhan’s life from its beginning in the prairie city of Edmonton, Alberta, through his education at Cambridge and his teaching career in America to his startling breakthroughs in communication while at the University of Toronto. |
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Wherever he went, McLuhan left the indelible memory of his passion for learning as a vital legacy among colleagues, friends and acquaintances. This is the man Gordon successfully evokes in this superb biography.
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480 pages, Paperback, 6'' x 9'' (150 x 230 mm)
24 duotone illustrations, English |
| ISBN: 978-1-58423-112-7 |
$ 19.95 |
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Gingko Press, Inc.
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Berkeley, California 94710
Phone: (510) 898-1195
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| about the author: |
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| W. Terrence Gordon |
| was born in Montreal in 1942. He studied at the University of Toronto, where he received his undergraduate and graduate degrees. He is the author of 17 published books and over 130 articles in the fields of linguistics, pedagogy, rhetoric, semiotics, and intellectual history. |
| Since 1972, Gordon has been on the faculty of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, teaching courses in linguistics, translation, the role of radio in World War II, and, of course, the work of Marshall McLuhan. |
| Author of the highly successful McLuhan for Beginners, W. Terrence Gordon has edited a critical edition of Marshall McLuhan’s Understanding Media and McLuhan’s doctoral thesis, The Classical Trivium. |
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