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Marshall McLuhan

Wise Guy

by (author) Judith Fitzgerald

Publisher
Dundurn Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2001
Category
Historical, General, Information Theory
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780968816677
    Publish Date
    Jan 2001
    List Price
    $15.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781770706590
    Publish Date
    Jan 2001
    List Price
    $7.99

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Communications theorist Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) predicted the effects of electronic media on modern culture as early as 1964. McLuhan published several breakthrough books and coined terms like "hot" and "cool" media, "the global village," and "the medium is the message."

About the author

Judith Fitzgerald is the author of more than twenty collections of poetry as well as two bestselling biographies, Marshall McLuhan: Wise Guy (Dundurn, 2001) and Building a Mystery: The Story of Sarah McLachlan and Lilith Fair (Quarry, 1997). Rapturous Chronicles (Mercury, 1991) was nominated for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry; her epyllion, River (ECW, 1995), was both shortlisted for the Trillium Award and honoured with the James McMaster Poetry Prize; and her collection of ghazals and sonnets, Twenty-Six Ways Out of This World (Oberon Press, 1996), was named one of the six best poetry collections of the year published in English (Globe and Mail’s Top 100). Given Names: New and Selected Poems (Black Moss Press, 1985) was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award and won a Writers’ Choice Award. Fitzgerald passed away in November of 2015.

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