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Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye: Apocalypse and Alchemy

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By (author): B.W. Powe

Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye are two of Canadas 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 but often acid responses to each other, Powe exposes the scholarly controversies and personal conflicts that erupted between them, and notably the great commonalities in their writing and biographies. Using interviews, letters, notebooks, and their published texts, Powe offers a new alchemy of their thought, in which he combines the philosophical hallmarks of McLuhans The medium is the message and Fryes the great code.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 540g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 21 Apr 2014
  • Publisher: University of Toronto Press
  • Publication City/Country: Canada
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781442616165

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.

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