The virtual Marshall McLuhan
By: Donald F. Theall ; with a historical appendix by Edmund Carpenter.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Montreal
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
Subjects: McLuhan, Marshall, -- 1911-1980.; Mass media specialists -- Canada -- Biography.; Mass media and literature.
Description: "Marshall McLuhan explored everything from popular culture to the occult to the emerging digital revolution. In the Virtual Marshall McLuhan Donald Theall discusses the influences that shaped McLuhan's ideas and examines McLuhan's roles as artist, pop guru, shaman, and scholar. Theall, McLuhan's first doctoral student, provides new information about their relationship creating a picture of McLuhan as a complex human being, at one attractive, witty, egotistic, and exasperating."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-298) and index.

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