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Counterblasting Canada : Marshall McLuhan, Wyndham Lewis, Wilfred Watson, and Sheila Watson /

"In 1914, Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis--the founders of Vorticism--undertook an unprecedented analysis of the present, its technologies, communication, politics, and architecture. The essays in Counterblasting Canada trace the influence of Vorticism on Marshall McLuhan and Canadian Modernism. B...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Betts, Gregory, 1975- (Autor, Editor )
Otros Autores: Hjartarson, Paul Ivar (Editor ), Smitka, Kristine, 1982- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press, 2016.
Edición:First electronic edition, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Gregory Betts, Paul Hiartarson, and Kristine Smitka. Analepsis : Remembering McLuhan / Leon Surette. 1 The art of being read : The new Canadian vortex: Marshall McLuhan and the avant-garde function of counter-environments / Gregory Betts
  • Watson, McLuhan (& Lewis): conscious (modernist) solitudes, challenging Canadians / Elena Lamberti
  • Excellent internationalists: how Sheila Watson and Marshall McLuhan made Wyndham Lewis influential / Adam Hammond. 2 The antennae of the race : Dispatches from the DEW line: McLuhan, anti-environments, and visual art across the Canada-US border, 1966-1973 / Adam Welch
  • Wilfred Watson, playwright: writing (to) McLuhan / Paul Tiessen
  • Marshall McLuhan, general idea, and me! / Philip Monk. 3 Art and anti-environment : Sheila Watson, Wyndham Lewis, and men without art / Dean Irvine
  • "His name is Felix:" artist as catalytic agent and the counter-environment in Sheila Watson's The Double Hook / Linda M. Morra
  • Magic, monstrosity and "the mechanization of death:" Sheila Watson and Marshall McLuhan's dialogue on photography / Kristine Smitka. Prolepsis : Marshall McLuhan as vanishing mediator / Darren Wershler.