The Classical Trivium: The Place of Thomas Nashe in the Learning of His Time

by Marshall McLuhan

Book Overview

Before Marshall McLuhan became the media & communications philosopher of the modern age, he wrote a doctoral dissertation that provided scholars with a thorough examination of the 16th century's age of rhetoric.
In this previously unpublished work, a young McLuhan, as cultural historian, illuminates the complexities of the classical trivium, provides the first ever close reading of the enigmatic Elizabethan writer Thomas Nashe, and implicitly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584232358
• ISBN13: 9781584232353
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Gingko Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 10.4"