1st Edition

Reading McLuhan Reading

Edited By Paula McDowell Copyright 2023
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

Sixty years after Understanding Media , Marshall McLuhan remains one of the best known and most influential intellectuals of the twentieth century. Far beyond academia, readers (and non-readers) recognize his coinages, such as ‘the Gutenberg era’, the ‘global village’ and ‘the medium is the message'. A literary scholar by profession, McLuhan was one of the first academics to recognize the new... Read more

1. Introduction: Reading McLuhan reading (and not reading)

Paula McDowell

2. Enter through the book shop: McLuhan monograffiti

Andrew McLuhan

3. Watching readers reading

Adrian Johns

4. ‘Good heavens! that’s where I got it!’ McLuhan reads Wyndham Lewis

Paul Edwards

5. Cliché and repetition: McLuhan understanding modernism

Peter Nicholls

6. Reading Ong reading McLuhan

John Guillory

7. When the medium is war: Marshall McLuhan, media, and militarisation

Patrick Deer

8. Imagining Marshall McLuhan as a digital reader: an experiment in applied Joyce

Alan Galey

9. Afterword: Exit this way: afterward

Lisa Gitelman

 

Biography

Paula McDowell is Professor of English at New York University, USA. Known for her groundbreaking archival research, her latest book, The Invention of the Oral: Print Commerce and Fugitive Voices in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2017), won the John Ben Snow Prize of the North American Conference on British Studies. She is currently writing an archivally-based book on McLuhan’s women.