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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465771003321

Titolo

Counter-blasting Canada : Marshall McLuhan, Wyndham Lewis, Wilfred Watson, and Sheila Watson / / edited by Gregory Betts, Paul Hjartarson, and Kristine Smitka

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edmonton, Alberta : , : The University of Alberta Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-77212-151-7

1-77212-149-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/0054

Soggetti

Canadian literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Vorticism - Canada

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front cover; Title page; Copyright page; Epigraph: re maelström and vortex; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction | Betts, Hjartarson and Msitka; ANALEPSIS; 1 Remembering McLuhan | Surrette; I THE ART OF BEING READ; 2 The New Canadian Vortex | Betts; 3 Watson, McLuhan (& Lewis) | Lamberti; 4 Excellent Internationalists | Hammond; II THE ANTENNAE OF THE RACE; 5 Dispatches from the DEW Line | Welch; 6 Wilfred Watson, Playwright | Tiessen; 7 Marshall McLuhan, General Idea, and Me! | Monk; III ART AND ANTI-ENVIRONMENT; 8 Sheila Watson, Wyndham Lewis, and Men without Art | Irvine

9 "His Name Is Felix" | Morra10 Magic, Monstrosity, and "the Mechanization of Death" | Smitka; PROLEPSIS; 11 Marshall McLuhan as Vanishing Mediator | Wershler; Works Cited; Contributors; Index; Other Titles from The University of Alberta Press