2010
| McLuhan: A Guide for the Perplexed is a close reading of all of his work with a focus on tracing the systematic development of his thought. |
1997
| The originator of such widely used phrases as “the global village” and “the medium is the message,” Marshall McLuhan—the prescient media guru—is finally, attracting the critical attention he deserves. In the 1960s McLuhan blazed the intellectual territory which we are only coming to grips with today. This couldn’t be a better time for a readable, full-scale treatment of his writings, a book that reflects the range and depth of his thought accurately and ....[more] |
2009
| Through the power of illustration the Everyman's Series illuminates complex bodies of work by some of the 20th century's most vital thinkers. Picasso's assessment of James Joyce as a writer that all the world can understand speaks to how a perspective that favors the visual can see through thickly thicketed texts, allowing meaning to take shape. W. Terrence Gordon's examination of the James Joyce canon and its impact on the world, both in terms of literature and culture at large, provides access....[more] |
2008
| Linguistics For Beginners is the first book to ever make the arcane labors of linguistics accessible to general readers. It begins with a lucid definition of language and proceeds to examine how it becomes the subject matter of linguistics. Key topics include the contrast between writing and speech to elementary lessons in different levels of analysis from sounds to sentences. Absurd fictions such as Eskimos having hundreds of words for snow are exploded, and the borderlands between linguistics ....[more] |
2007
| Anyone who has ever considered media and its relation to humanity has most likely heard the name Marshall McLuhan. Famous for his adages, he was a careful student of 20th century media, in particular film and television, and a prolific lecturer and author. Unquestionably, McLuhan's writings are important, but all too often impenetrable. As technology speeds ahead and forces us to reconsider our relationship with it, McLuhan's career merits a freshly creative and accessible examination. W. Terren....[more] |
2006
| In this previously unpublished work, a young Marshall McLuhan, as cultural historian, illuminates the complexities of the classical trivium, provides the first ever close reading of the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 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 (interpretation), dialectic, and rheto....[more] |
2005
| McLuhan's intellectual odyssey took him from the study of English literature to a ground-breaking fusion of philosophy, psychology, sociology, and anthropology. His call for a program of educational reform, dictated by the dominance of electric technology, challenges educators today more than ever. Never before assembled in one place, the present collection of 20 pieces of writing from an intellectual giant affords a unique and rich glimpse of the variety and unity of his thought. |
2000
| This is a book for word lovers! It solves mysteries and misunderstandings surrounding two-word phrases from "abominable snowman" to "Zeno's arrow." In between comes a lot of fun learning about Black Monday, bra burning, monkeys and rabbits that never were ("hundredth monkey," "Welsh rabbit," and much more. |
1999
| This is the fifth volume in the boxed set C.K. Ogden & Linguistics. The set includes key essays by and about Ogden and a complete critical edition of his classic work (with I.A. Richards), The Meaning of Meaning. |
1997
| Marshall McLuhan pioneered the study of the media and is now making a comeback, despite the fact that he died in 1980. McLuhan was a professor of English who loved James Joyce, hated television, played himself in Woody Allen's Annie Hall, and fired off ideas like a machine gun. If he were alive today, he would want to continue infuriating a world moving into the 21st century with 19th century perceptions. This book is described as a "documentary comic book" that explains his ideas but doesn't ta....[more] |
1996
| An easy to read introduction to the work of the father of 20th-century linguistics. All the principles of Saussure's Course in General Linguistics are carefully explained. Saussure's work in relation to other linguists and his influence on anthropology, sociology, psychoanalysis, and critical theory are also examined. |
1992
| This volume updates the two previous ones in the series, bringing the total number of entries to 7,385. A new introductory essay has also been added. |
1990
| A 55-page introductory essay on the life and work of Charles Kay Ogden, linguist, intellectual historian, and the originator of the 850-word teaching system known as BASIC English precedes a complete and fully-annotated bibliography of his writings. |
1987
| A compilation of scholarship from philosophy, linguistics, psychology, and anthropology. Lists more than 2700 books, articles, and published conference papers. |
1982
| A systematic study of the evolution of theory and practice in lexical semantics from its origins in the nineteenth century to its integration with pioneering works in transformational generative grammar. |
1980
| See note for later volumes. |
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