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1 online resource (xii, 305 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Prelude: McLuhan's Basic Probes and Perceptions -- Introduction: Who/What Is Marshall McLuhan? -- Techno-Prophet as Poet and Trickster -- McLuhan the Correspondent: His Writings as Probes, Percepts, and Affects -- From the Trivium to the Tetrad: Media as Artefact and Language -- Professor and the Publicist: Tom Wolfe, the Firehouse Boys, and Marshall -- McLuhanesque Ambivalence: Power and Cultural Production -- McLuhan and the Cults: Gnosticism, Hermeticism, and Modernism -- McLuhan as Prepostmodernist and Forerunner of French Theory -- McLuhan as Trickster: The Poetry of Cliche -- McLuhan, Joyce, and the Evolution of Cyberculture -- Joyce, Light, and the Road to Digiculture -- McLuhan as Modern Satirist -- Conclusion: Rehabilitating the Arts and the Artist -- Biographical Notes and The Medium Is the Rear View Mirror -- Edmund Carpenter, "That Not-So-Silent Sea." |
| Summary |
"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."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
McLuhan, Marshall, 1911-1980.
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McLuhan, Marshall, 1911-1980. |
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McLuhan, Marshall, 1911-1980. |
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McLuhan, Marshall, 1911-1980. |
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Mass media specialists -- Canada -- Biography.
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Mass media specialists. |
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Canada. |
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Mass media and literature.
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Mass media and literature. |
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Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Theall, Donald F. Virtual Marshall McLuhan. Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001 0773521194 (DLC) 2002391820 (OCoLC)44751521 |
| ISBN |
9780773568822 (electronic book) |
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0773568824 (electronic book) |
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0773521194 |
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9780773521193 |
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