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McLuhan's Canadian Sense of Space, Time and Tactility
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Richard Cavell, McLuhan in Space: A Cultural Geography (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002).
Marshall McLuhan's work has not been the subject of many genuinely scholarly books, nor has he, with few exceptions, been regarded as an artist or as a significant figure in the pantheon of Canadian culture. Consequently, Richard Cavell's recently published McLuhan in Space: A Cultural Geography is a significant addition to the literature about McLuhan. In this profusely documented stud...
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McLuhan's world--and ours.(cultural critic Marshall McLuhan)
Public Interest
; A NEW nonliterary culture exists today, of whose existence, not to mention significance, most literary intellectuals are entirely unaware, wrote Susan Sontag in her groundbreaking 1965 essay, One Culture and the New Sensibility. The new sensibility, she argued, collapsed the distinction between
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The Legacy of McLuhan.(Brief article)(Book review)
ETC.: A Review of General Semantics
; Lance Strate and Edward Wachtel (Eds The Legacy of McLuhan. Creskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2005. Marshall McLuhan, one of the most influential intellectuals of the twentieth century, put the study of media on the academic map and made media a subject of popular discourse. This book of original
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The Legacy of McLuhan
et Cetera
; Lance Strate and Edward Wachtel (Eds The Legacy of McLuhan. Creskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2005. Marshall McLuhan, one of the most influential intellectuals of the twentieth century, put the study of media on the academic map and made media a subject of popular discourse. This book of original
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In Defense Of the McLuhan Doctrine
The Washington Post
; MARSHALL McLUHAN Escape Into Understanding: A Biography By W. Terrence Gordon Basic Books. 465 pp. $35 Marshall McLuhan was the original media guru. He wrote voluminous, eye-opening and frequently baffling discourses on the hidden workings of media -- yet, ironically, his work chiefly survives via
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The Medium Is the Rear View Mirror: Understanding McLuhan
Antigonish Review
; The Medium Is the Rear View Mirror: Understanding McLuhan by Donald F. Theall; McGill-Queen's University Press. Understanding McLuhan is no easy task. Donald Theall deserves our respect for this serious attempt to master the labyrinth. He has good credentials. McLuhan was his Ph.D. thesis director
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