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Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye: Apocalypse and Alchemy

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Description for Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye: Apocalypse and Alchemy Paperback. 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." Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JJ; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 558.

Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye are two of Canada’s central cultural figures, colleagues and rivals whose careers unfolded in curious harmony even as their intellectual engagement was antagonistic. Poet, novelist, essayist and philosopher B.W. Powe, who studied with both of these formidable and influential intellectuals, presents an exploration of their lives and work in Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye: Apocalypse and Alchemy.

Powe considers the existence of a unique visionary tradition of Canadian humanism and argues that McLuhan and Frye represent fraught but complementary approaches to the study of literature and to the broader engagement with culture. Examining their eloquent ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442616165
SKU
V9781442616165
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About B.W. Powe
B.W. Powe is an associate professor and the Creative Writing Program coordinator in the Department of English at York University.

Reviews for Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye: Apocalypse and Alchemy
“Bruce Powe is a rare intellectual figure in the Canadian landscape. He has the sensibility and eloquence of a literary critic, and the power of persuasion of a cultural critic, definitely in the same league with the Canadian giants of the twentieth century.”
Francesco Guardiani, Dept. of Italian, University of Toronto ‘There will likely be many McLuhan and Frye ... Read more

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