The Classical Trivium - The Place of Thomas Nashe in the Learning of his Time. Diss.

In this previously unpublished work, a young Marshall McLuhan, as cultural historian, illuminates the complexities of the Classical Trivium, provides the first ever close reading of the enigmatic Elizabethan writer Thomas Nashe, and implicity challenges the reader to accept a new blueprint for literary education. Ideas that would ground McLuhan's media analysis of the 1960s and 70s are here in embryo, as he sets out in scrupulous detail the role of grammar (interpretation), dialectic, and rhetoric in classical learning. Under McLuhan's scholarly microscope, the internal dynamics of the trivium and its purpose are revealed, as is its indispensable role in giving full due to the rich prose of Thomas Nashe. In ranging over literature from Cicreo to the sixteenth century, McLuhan discovers the source and significance of multiple traditions in Nashe's writings. Here, more than half a century after it was written, is a fresh, insightful, and richly coherent framework for studying Nashe and an unequivocal call for a program of education based on the ambitious and loftly ideal of reintegrating the Classical Trivium.

Product details

• Authors: Marshall McLuhan
• Assisted by: W. Terrence Gordon (Editor)
• Publisher: Gingko Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2006
• EAN: 9781584230670
• ISBN: 978-1-58423-067-0
• No. of pages: 292
• Weight: 832 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies