Book Description
A major critical discussion of the work of Marshall McLuhan.
Virtual Marshall McLuhan FROM THE PUBLISHER
"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.
SYNOPSIS
Theall (former president, Trent U.) begins with a prelude to help readers distinguish between the life and works of McLuhan (1911-80) and the myth that has grown around him since his floriate from 1965 to 1975. Then he explores the tensions between tradition and modernity and faith and anarchy that the Canadian technology prophet responded to. Some of the essays have been, or will be, published separately. Distributed in the US by CUP Services. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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