Marshall McLuhan's mosaic: probing the literary origins of media studies

Acknowledgments   Prologue  \'April is the cruellest  month ...\' Look Backward, Enquire Farther  1. A Renewed Approach to Marshall McLuhan\'s Poetics  From Figure to Ground What Was THAT? McLuhan\'s  \'Little Point\' Pointing to Action: This Book Digging the Ground Hey, Marshall McLuhan, What Were You Doin\'? Oh, What a Seer He Was! The Electric/Eclectic Humanist Learning the Grammar Post-literate  \'Paideia\' From Integral Awareness to Storytelling  PART ONE: THE MOSAIC  2. Towards Post-Secondary Orality: The Mosaic   Embodying McLuhan Casting the Hybrid Substantial Discontinuity What\'s in a Probe? Playing with Form Render Not Narrate McLuhan\'s  Interactive Mosaic or Post-Secondary  Orality  3. Thus Spoke the Oracle  Oracular Pronouncements Interfacing Orality and Literacy Performative Storytelling  4. Let the Guru Resound  The Gurus\' Guru Redefining Space Holistic Mosaic: Western Science, Eastern  Philosophies Touch-A Touch-A Touch the Guru  5. A Conscious Modernist Craftsman  A Pioneer of (New) Modernist Studies Universal Quest, Fragmented Rendering To Make You Feel: Probing through Language  6. The Hyper-Language of the Media \'Fan\'  Media Fan or Grammarian of Media? Hypertexting the Mosaic De-hypertexting the Mosaic Electrifying Hybrid  PART TWO: MODERNIST ASCENDANCIES  7. McLuhan and Media Studies  Labelling  the Media Theorist Evolutionary  Grammarian A Political Thomist A Classic Modernist  8. From Literature to Media Studies  Conscious  Planning Practical Mystics From Renaissance  to Modernism On a Mission  9. Ford Madox Ford: \'Not Mere Chat\'  Literature Matters An Imaginative  Writer Things,  Not Words Comparing Strategies Rendering Change Ford\'s The Fifth Queen: Probing the Making of the Gutenberg Galaxy  10.  James Joyce: Vivisecting Society  Applied Joyce Sci-Fi Phantasmagoria Grotesque Vivisection Newspaperwise Attack  11. Ezra Pound: Pursuing Persuasion, Translating Cultures  Epical News From Old to New Learning    196 (Ideo)Grammatic Baedeker Totalitarian Craft?  12. Wyndham Lewis: Blasting Time, Blessing Space  A Proto-postmodernist From Time to Space Experiencing Arrest Counterblastings  PART THREE: APPLIED McLUHAN  13. Literature and Media: A Round Trip  Engaging with or Applying McLuhan? \'Visual Literate\'  Forms Masking the Guru Actual Sci-Fi Rear-View Mirrors Performing Presence Pathological Narcissuses Charismatic Flesh  Epilogue: Witty Fool or Foolish Wit?  Merging  Right and Left Coda: Enters the Fool, Exit All Others  Notes  Bibliography Index