Marshall Mcluhan and Northrop Frye - Apocalypse and Alchemy

Using interviews, letters, notebooks, and their published texts, Powe offers a new alchemy of their thought, in which he combines the philosophical hallmarks of McLuhan’s “The medium is the message” and Frye’s “the great code.”

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Prologue: The Juncture of Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye in 1946
Intentions and Overview, Apocalypse and Alchemy in McLuhan and Frye
Presences and Signatures: These Figures in their Ground
The Critical Conflict Between McLuhan and Frye
The Harmonies in Two Seers: Orchestrations and Complementarities
Alchemy, Synergy in the Thinking of McLuhan and Frye
The Lessons of Two Teachers: Guidance and Signs
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

B.W. Powe is an associate professor and the Creative Writing Program coordinator in the Department of English at York University.

Zusammenfassung

Using interviews, letters, notebooks, and their published texts, Powe offers a new alchemy of their thought, in which he combines the philosophical hallmarks of McLuhan's "The medium is the message" and Frye's "the great code."

Produktdetails

• Autoren: B W Powe, B. W. Powe, B.w. Powe
• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 21.04.2014
• EAN: 9781442616165
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-1616-5
• Seiten: 368
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Briefe, Tagebücher; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft