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ABSTRACT iii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS iv
CONTENTS vi
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS viii
INTRODUCTION 1
McLuhan on McLuhan 14
Career of a Neo-Renaissance Man 21
McLuhan Descending a Staircase 25
RECONSTRUCTION (1911–1951) 36
Meredith and Chesterton 37
McLuhan’s First “Great Labour” 40
Ciceronian Ideal 47
Trivium 49
Despotic Power of Art 55
School Master of North America 63
Enter the Maelstrom 68
Leavis and Giedion 70
Wyndham Lewis 76
Analogical Synthesis 83
Challenge and Collapse 97
Life as Artform 100
A Duet in Everything 107
Theory of Communication? 112
RESURRECTION (1951–1957) 118
Impact Nil! 120
The Circassian Horseman 124
Network 129
James Joyce 134
Ideas Consultants 136
Culture and Communication Seminar 141
Space, Time, Eye, and Ear 145
Light On and Light Through 150
Dialogue 152
Organising Ignorance for Discovery 159
Figure and Ground 165
Audience as Formal Cause 172
Acoustic Space 179
REVELATION (1944–1964) 189
Decorum 191
Straddling Two Worlds 199
McLuhan’s Second “Great Labour” 206
Ezra Pound 210
East and West 213
Ovid and the Epyllion 222
Age of Discontinuity 233
Apocalypse 239
School Master Redux 243
SI/SC Charts 261
Creative Means For Coexistence 265
Centre in Culture and Technology 273
Broadway Musicals 279
Road to Finnegans Wake 281
REPLAY (1965–1973) 298
Put-On Artist 302
Not With Words of Wisdom 305
Joyce and the Symbolists 312
ESP and Media as Weapons 319
Programming the Environment 326
Joint Effort in the Age of Paratroopers 331
New Duet 334
Professional Conversationalist 339
Hijacker 349
Pamphleteer 354
Make it Strange 357
Voices of Literature 360
Patterns in Literary Criticism 362
McLuhan, Fiore, and Agel 365
Revelation of Form 367
Stylistics 377
McLuhan and Harley Parker 383
From Cliché to Archetype 390
Take Today 398
EXPLORING NEW FRONTIERS (1970–1979) 404
Resonance 411
In the Kingdom of the Blind 418
Magnetic City 431
The Hallucinated Idiot 446
Menippean Thunder 450
After the Revolution 453
A Place to Stand 459
Rousing the Theologians 464
Secular Theory of Communication 473
Thingness 483
A Dialogue 485
BIBLIOGRAPHY 491
Works by H. Marshall McLuhan 492
McLuhan and a Collaborator 507
McLuhan’s Correspondence 509
Works by Other Authors 518
