The virtual Marshall McLuhan

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"Marshall McLuhan explored everything from popular culture to the occult to the emerging digital revolution. In the Virtual Marshall McLuhan Donald Theall discusses the influences that shaped McLuhan's ideas and examines McLuhan's roles as artist, pop guru, shaman, and scholar. Theall, McLuhan's first doctoral student, provides new information about their relationship creating a picture of McLuhan as a complex human being, at one attractive, witty, egotistic, and exasperating."--BOOK JACKET.

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Title Statements

Full title :The virtual Marshall McLuhan / Donald F. Theall ; with a historical appendix by Edmund Carpenter.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2001.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Mcgill-Queen's University Press
Place of Publication:Montreal
Language:eng
Publication Date:2001.

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 305 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0773521194, 9780773521193
oclc:ocn270533852
LC Classification:P92.5.M24 T44 2001
Dewey Decimal:302.23/092

Prelude: McLuhan's Basic Probes and Perceptions -- Introduction: Who/What Is Marshall McLuhan? -- 1. The Techno-Prophet as Poet and Trickster -- 2. McLuhan the Correspondent: His Writings as Probes, Percepts, and Affects -- 3. From the Trivium to the Tetrad: Media as Artefact and Language -- 4. The Professor and the Publicist: Tom Wolfe, the Firehouse Boys, and Marshall -- 5. McLuhanesque Ambivalence: Power and Cultural Production -- 6. McLuhan and the Cults: Gnosticism, Hermeticism, and Modernism -- 7. McLuhan as Prepostmodernist and Forerunner of French Theory -- 8. McLuhan as Trickster: The Poetry of Cliche -- 9. McLuhan, Joyce, and the Evolution of Cyberculture -- 10. Joyce, Light, and the Road to Digiculture -- 11. McLuhan as Modern Satirist -- 12. Conclusion: Rehabilitating the Arts and the Artist -- App. A. Biographical Notes and The Medium Is the Rear View Mirror -- App. B. Edmund Carpenter, "That Not-So-Silent Sea"

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Biographies Canada Mass media and literature Mass media specialists Mass media specialists -- Biography. --… McLuhan, Marshall Médias et littérature Spécialistes des médias -- Biographies.…