Main entry:

Powe, B. W. (Bruce W.), 1955- author.

Title & Author:

Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye : apocalypse and alchemy / B.W. Powe.

Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2014]
©2014

Description:

xi, 354 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-335) and index.
Prologue: the juncture of Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye in 1946 -- Intentions and overview: Apocalypse and alchemy in McLuhan and Frye -- Presences and signatures: these figures in their ground -- Critical conflict between McLuhan and Frye -- Harmonies in two seers: Orchestrations and complementarities -- Alchemy: synergy in the thinking of McLuhan and Frye -- The lessons of two teachers: guidance and signs.

Summary:

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 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 McLuhan's The medium is the message and Frye's the great code.-- Provided by Publisher.

ISBN:

9781442648111 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
1442648112 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
9781442616165 (paper ; acid-free paper)
1442616164 (paper ; acid-free paper)

Subject:

McLuhan, Marshall, 1911-1980.
Frye, Northrop.
McLuhan, Marshall, 1911-1980 Criticism and interpretation.
Frye, Northrop Criticism and interpretation.
Frye, Northrop, 1912-1991 Criticism and interpretation.
Frye, Northrop, 1912-1991.
McLuhan, Marshall, 1911-1980 Critique et interprétation.
Frye, Northrop, 1912-1991 Critique et interprétation.
McLuhan, Marshall 1911-1980
Frye, Northrop 1912-1991
Mass media specialists Canada Biography.
Critics Canada Biography.
Mass media and culture.
Criticism.
Humanism.
Spécialistes des médias Canada Biographies.
Critiques Canada Biographies.
Médias et culture.
Critique.
Humanisme.
humanism.
Critics.
Mass media specialists.
Kritiker.
Massmedia och kultur.
Kritik.
Canada.

Form/genre:

Biography
Biographies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 289240
Call No.: BIB 231535
Status: Available