Description In this previously unpublished work, a young Marshall McLuhan, as cultural historian, illuminates the com- plexities of the Classical trivium, provides the first ever close reading of the enigmatic Elizabethan writer Thomas Nashe, and implicitly challenges the reader to accept a new blueprint for literary education.
Ideas that would ground McLuhan\'s media analysis of the 1960s and 70s are here in embryo, as he sets out in scrupulous detail the role of grammar (interpr.
Description In this previously unpublished work, a young Marshall McLuhan, as cultural historian, illuminates the com- plexities of the Classical trivium, provides the first ever close reading of the enigmatic Elizabethan writer Thomas Nashe, and implicitly challenges the reader to accept a new blueprint for literary education
