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Bibliography

Works by McLuhan and his Collaborators

Listed in chronological order

Adapted from "The heat and the light of Marshall McLuhan: A reappraisal" Unpublished McGill University doctoral thesis (1997) by Liss Jeffrey

McLuhan, Marshall. January 1936. "G. K. Chesterton: A Practical Mystic." Dalhousie Review 15 (4): 455-64.

_____. 1937. "The Cambridge English School." Fleur de Lis: 21-25. St. Louis University student magazine.

_____. January 1943. "Aesthetic Pattern in Keat's Odes." University of Toronto Quarterly 12: 1670-79.

_____. 1944. "Edgar Poe's Tradition." Sewanee Review 52 (1): 24-33.

_____. January 1944. "Dagwood's America." Columbia: 3, 22.

_____. Autumn 1945. "Another Aesthetic PeepShow." Sewanee Review 53: 674-77.

_____. Winter 1945. "The New York Wits." Kenyon Review 7 (1): 12-28.

_____. 1945. "The Analogical Mirrors." In Gerald Manley Hopkins. 15-27. Kenyon Critics Edition. Norfolk, CT: New Directions Books. Reprinted 1969. The Interior Landscape: The Literary Criticism of Marshall McLuhan 1943-1962, edited by Eugene McNamara. Toronto: McGraw0Hill. 63-74.

_____. 1946. "An Ancient Quarrel in Modern America." The Classical Journal 41 (4): Reprinted 1969. The Interior Landscape: The Literary Criticism of Marshall McLuhan 1943-1962, edited by Eugene McNamara. Toronto: McGraw-Hill. 223-34.

_____. 1946. "Footprints in the Sands of Crime." Sewanee Review 54 (4): 617-34.

_____. 1947. "American Advertising." Horizon 93 (4): 132-41. Reprinted 1957. In Mass Culture: The Popular Arts in America. edited by Bernard Rosenberg and David Manning White, 1957. New York: MacMillan; Free Press Paperback Edition 1964. 435-442.

_____. 1947. "Inside Blake and Hollywood." Sewanee Review 55: 710-15.

_____. 1947. "Introduction." Paradox in Chesterton. By Hugh Kenner. New York: Sheed & Ward.

_____. January 1948. "Henry IV, A Mirror for Magistrates." University of Toronto Quarterly 17: 152-60.

_____. Autumn 1949. "Mr. Eliot's Historical Decorum." Renascence 2 (1): 9-15.

_____. April 1949. "The 'Color-Bar' of BBC English." Canadian Forum 29 (339): 9-10.

_____. 1951. "The Folklore of Industrial Man." Neurotica 8 (3): 3-20.

_____. 1951. "Joyce, Aquinas, and the Poetic Process." Renascence 4 (1): 3-11.

_____. 1951. The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man. New York: Vanguard Press.

_____. 1951. "Tennyson and Picturesque Poetry." Essays in Criticism 1 (3): 262-82. Reprinted 1969. The Interior Landscape: The Literary Criticism of Marshall McLuhan 1943-1962, edited by Eugene McNamara. Toronto: McGraw-Hill. 135-156.

_____. 1952. "The Aesthetic Moment in Landscape Poetry." In English Institute Essays. edited by Alan Downe. New York: Columbia University Press. Reprinted 1969. The Interior Landscape: The Literary Criticism of Marshall McLuhan 1943-1962, edited by Eugene McNamara. Toronto: McGraw-Hill. 157-68.

_____. March 1952. "Defrosting Canadian Culture." American Mercury 74 (339): 91-97.

_____. Summer 1952. "Technology and Political Change." International Journal 7: 189-95.

_____. 1953. "The Later Innis." Queen's Quarterly 60 (3): 385-84.

_____. Autumn 1953. "Maritain on Art." Renascence 6 (3): 40-44.

_____. January 1953. Review of From Eliot to Seneca: The Senecan Amble: A Study in Prose from Bacon to Collier. University of Toronto Quarterly 22. 199-202.

_____. 28 February, 1953. "Comics and Culture." Saturday Night 68 (21): 1,19-20.

_____. Spring 1953. "James Joyce: Trivial and Quadrivial." Thought 28 (108): 75-98. Reprinted 1969. The Interior Landscape: The Literary Criticism of Marshall McLuhan 1943-1962, edited by Eugene McNamara. Toronto: McGraw-Hill. 23-48.

_____. September 1953. "The Age of Advertising." Commonweal 58 (23): 555-57.

_____. December 1953. "Culture Without Literacy." Explorations 1, 117-27.

_____. 1954. "Catholic Humanism & Modern Letters." In Christian Humanism in Letters. The McAuley Lectures, Series 2, 49-67.

_____. 1954. Counterblast 1954. Toronto: selfpublished.

_____. ed. 1954. Selected Poetry of Tennyson. New York: Rinehart.

_____. April 1954. "Notes on the Media as Art Forms." Explorations 2, 6-13.

_____. April 9, 1954. "Sight, Sound and the Fury." Commonweal (60): 169-97. Reprinted 1957. In Mass Culture: The Popular Arts in America. edited by Bernard Rosenberg and David Manning White, 1957. New York: MacMillan; Free Press Paperback Edition 1964. 489-495.

_____. August 1954. "New Media as Political Forms." Explorations 3, 120-126.

_____. Winter 1954. "Joyce, Mallarmé and the Press." Sewanee Review 62(1): 38-55. Reprinted 1969. The Interior Landscape: The Literary Criticism of Marshall McLuhan 1943-1962, edited by Eugene McNamara. Toronto: McGraw-Hill. 5-22.

_____. n.d. 1955. "Coleridge as Artist." In The Major English Romantic Poets: A Symposium in Reappraisal, edited by Clarence D. Thorpe, Carlos Baker, and Bennet Weaver. Manuscript.

_____. February 1955. "Space, Time and Poetry." Explorations 4, 56-64.

_____. June 1955. "Radio and Television vs. the ABCDE-Minded: Radio and T.V. in Finnegan's Wake." Explorations 5, 12-18.

_____. Autumn 1955. "Five Sovereign Fingers Taxed the Breath." Shenandoah 7 (1): 50-52

_____. November 1955. "A Historical Approach to the Media." Teachers College Record 57 (2): 104-110.

_____. 24 November 1955. "What the Mass Media Mean for Teachers of English." Address to the 45th Convention of the National Council of Teachers of English.

_____. 1956. "Educational Effects of Mass-Media of Communication." Teachers College Review 20 (4): 566-75.

_____. July 1956. "The Media Fit the Battle of Jericho." Explorations 6, 15-21.

_____. March 1956. "Educational Effects of the Mass Media of Communication." Teachers College Record 57 (6): 400-03.

_____. 1957. "Conspicuous Co-Existence and How it Affects Markets." Transcript of Address to the National Association of Purchasing Agents Petroleum Industry Buyers' Group. Atlantic City.

_____. 16 February 1957. "Why the CBC Must be Dull." Saturday Night 72: 13-14.

McLuhan, Marshall with Edmund Carpenter. March 1957. Classrooms Without Walls. Explorations 7, 22-26.

McLuhan, Marshall. March 1957. "The Effect of the Printed Book on Written and Oral Language in the Sixteenth Century." Explorations 7, 100-108.

_____. March 1957. "Jazz and Modern Letters." Explorations 7, 74-76.

_____. October 1957. "Verbi-Voco-Visual." Explorations 8, Reprinted 1967. New York: Something Else Press.

_____. 1958. "The Electronic Revolution in North America." International Literary Annual 1:

_____. Summer 1958. "Media Alchemy in Art and Society." Journal of Communication 8 (2): 63-67.

_____. 1959. "Printing and Social Change." Printing Progress: A Mid-Century Report. Cincinnati: The International Association of Printing House Craftsmen. 81-112.

_____. Spring 1959. "Myth and Mass Media." Daedalus 88 (2): 339-48. Reprinted 1960. In Myth and Mythmaking. edited by Henry A. Murray, New York Braziller.

McLuhan, Marshall, and Edmund Carpenter, eds. 1960. Explorations in Communication. Boston: Beacon Press.

_____. 1960. "The Gutenberg Galaxy: A Voyage Between Two Worlds." Transcript of conversation with McLuhan, Harley Parker, and Robert Shafer (appeared in McLuhan's Report on Project in Understanding New Media).

_____. 1960. "Tennyson and Picturesque Poetry." In Critical Essays of the Poetry of Tennyson. edited by John Killham. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 67-85.

_____. Summer 1960. "The Medium is the Message." Forum (Houston) 19-24.

_____. 30 June, 1960. Report on Project in Understanding New Media. New York: National Association of Educational Broadcasters, Office of Education, United states Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

_____. September 1960. "Electronics and the Changing World of Print." Audio-Visual Communication Review (5): 74.

_____. December 1960. "The Effects of the Improvement of Communication Media." Journal of Economic History 20 (4): 566-75.

_____. 1961. "Inside the Five Sense Sensorium." Canadian Architect 6 (6): 49-54.

_____. 1961. "New Media and the New Education." In Christianity and Culture. 181-90.

_____. 1961. Review of The Silent Language, by E.T. Hall. Audio-Visual Communication Review 9 (2): 147-48.

_____. Fall 1961. "The Humanities in the Electronic Age." Humanities Association Bulletin 34 (1): 3-11.

_____. 1962. "The Electronic Age: The Age of Implosion." In Mass Media in Canada, edited by John A. Irving. 179-05. Toronto: The Ryerson Press.

_____. 1962. The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

_____. September-October 1962. "Prospect." Canadian Art 19 (5): 363-66.

_____. 1964. "Introduction." In The Bias of Communication. By H.A. Innis. Reprint. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. vi-xvi.

_____. 1964. "The Psychic and Social-Consequences of the Technological Extension of Man." American Journal of Orthopedics 34 (2): 207-08.

_____. 1964. "Radio: The Tribal Drum." Audio-Visual Communication Review 12 (2): 133-45.

_____. 1964. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. New York: McGraw-Hill.

_____. January 1964. "Murder by Television." Canadian Forum 43 (516): 222-23.

_____. May 1964. "Decline of the Visual." Dot Zero Magazine.

_____. 19 July 1964. "Printing and the Mind." The Times Literary Supplement. 517-518.

_____. 6 August 1964. "Marshall McLuhan: Culture and Technology." Times Literary Supplement. Statement on the Centre for Culture and Technology, University of Toronto.

_____. December 1964. "Notes on Burroughs." Nation. 517-519.

_____. Winter 1964. "The University in the Electric Age: The End of the Gap Between Theory and Practice." Explorations [The Varsity Graduate] 11 (3): 60-64.

McLuhan, Marshall, and Richard J. Schoeck. eds. 1964/5. Voices of Literature: Sounds, Masks, Roles. Toronto: Holt, Rinehart & Winston. Volumes I/II

McLuhan, Marshall. February 1965. "Art as Anti-Environment." Arts News Annual 31: 55-57.

_____. February 1965. "T.S. Eliot." Canadian Forum 44 (529): 243-44.

_____. 1966. "Cybernation and Culture." The Social Impact of Cybernetics, edited by Charles R. Dechert, . Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press.

_____. 1966. "Marshall McLuhan and Mike Wallace: A Dialogue." The Diebold Research Program Document no. PP10.

_____. Spring 1966. "Address at Vision 65." The American Scholar 196-205. Address at International Center for the Typographic Arts University, Carbondale, Illinois, 23 October 1965.

_____. April 1966. "Address to Texas-Stanford Television Seminar, Asilomar, California."

_____. May-June 1966. "Invisible Environment." Canadian Architect 11: 71-74, 73-59.

_____. July 1966. "Great Changeovers For You From Gutenberg to Batman: Address to Annenberg School of Communication, Pennsylvania, 28 April 1966." Vogue Magazine148, 62-63, 114-117.

_____. November 1966. "Questions and Answers with Marshall McLuhan." Take One 1 (2): 7-10.

_____. 1967. "The Future of Morality: The Inner vs. the Outer Quest." The New Morality. ed. William Dunphy.

_____. 1967. The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man. Reprint 1951. New York: Beacon Paperback. (Page references are to 1967 reprint)

McLuhan, Marshall, Quentin Fiore, and Jerome Agel. 1967. The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects. New York: Bantam Books.

McLuhan, Marshall. 1967. "Myth of Machine." New Society 10 (269): 753.

_____. 1967. "The Relation of Environment & Anti-Environment." In The Human Dialogue: Perspectives on Communication, edited by Floyd W. Matson and Ashley Montagu, 39-47. New York: New York Free Press.

_____. 1967. Verbi-Voco-Visual Explorations. Reprint. New York: Something Else Press; Explorations 8.

_____. February 1967. "Love." Saturday Night 82 (2): 25-28.

_____. February 1967. "The New Technology and the Arts: Address at Vision '65." Arts Canada 105 (24): 5-7.

_____. February 1967. "Technology and Environment." Arts Canada 105 (24): 5-7.

_____. March 1967. "What T.V. is Really Doing to your Child." Family Circle. 3, 98-99.

McLuhan, Marshall, and George B. Leonard. 25 July 1967. "The Future of Sex." Look 31 (15): 56-63.

_____. December 1967. "Santa Claus Gets the Message Stereophonic Christmas: Taking the Cotton Wool out of Christmas." McCall's. 90-97, 163.

_____. 1968. "Guaranteed Income in the Electric Age." In Beyond Left and Right: Radical Thought for Our Times, edited by Richard Kostelanetz, 72-82 . New York: William Morrow.

_____. 1968. Preface. In Time, Fourth Dimension of the Mind (Le Temps, quatriPme dimension de l'esprit). By Robert Wallis. Translated by Betty B. and Denis B. Montgomery, . New York: Harcourt, Brace & World.

McLuhan, Marshall, and Harley Parker. 1968. Through the Vanishing Point: Space in Poetry and Painting. New York: Harper & Row.

McLuhan, Marshall, Quentin Fiore, and Jerome Agel. 1968. War and Peace in the Global Village. New York: Bantam Books.

_____. April 1968. "Fashion is Language: McLuhan's Bazaar." Harper's Bazaar: 101

_____. July 1968. Dew-Line Newsletters. New York: Human Development Corporation.

_____. 27 July 1968. "Fashion: A Bore War?" Saturday Evening Post. 29.

_____. 28 July 1968. "Announcing the Marshall McLuhan Dew-Line Newsletter." New York Magazine. 27. Advertisement for photographic slides, cards as presentation.

_____. 10 August 1968. "All of the Candidates are Asleep." Saturday Evening Post. 34-36.

_____. October 1968. "Mailer, McLuhan, and Muggeridge: On Obscenity." Realist: Transcript of television broadcast The Way It Is CBLT-TV, Toronto.

_____. December 1968. "The Reversal of the Overheated Image." Playboy. 131-134, 245.

_____. 1969. "Communication in the Global Village." In This Cybernetic Age, edited by Don Toppin. 158-67. New York: Human Development Corporation.

McLuhan, Marshall, and Harley Parker. 1969. Counterblast. New York: Harcourt Brace & World.

McLuhan, Marshall. 1969. Counterblast. London: Rapp and Whiting.

_____. 1969. The Interior Landscape: The Literary Criticism of Marshall McLuhan 1943-1962, edited by Eugene McNamara. Toronto: McGraw-Hill.

_____. 1969. Marshall McLuhan Gets Processed. Toronto: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Sound tape reel [sound recording] for Ideas (Radio program).

_____. 1969. Strike the Set. The McLuhan DEW-LINE, May 1969. New York: Human Development Corporation.

McLuhan, Marshall. March 1969. "Marshall McLuhan: A Candid Conversation With the High Priest of Popcult and Metaphysician of the Media." By Eric Norden. Playboy 16 (3). 26-27,45,55-56,61,63. Reprinted The Canadian Journal of Communication 14 (4 & 5): 101-137. Winter 1989.

_____. November 1969. "The Hardware/Software Mergers: How Successful Have They Been?" Panel discussion with Marshall McLuhan, Francis Keppel, Ralph W. Tyler, Harold Haizlip, and Jonathan Kozol. Urban Research Corporation Conference: Reappraisal of the Educational Technology Industry.

_____. December 1969. "Wyndham Lewis." Atlantic Monthly 224 (6): 93-98.

_____. 1970. Culture is Our Business. New York: McGraw-Hill.

_____. 1970. "Education in the Electronic Age." Interchange 1 (4): 1-12.

McLuhan, Marshall, and Wilfred Watson. 1970. From Cliché to Archetype. New York: Viking.

McLuhan, Marshall. 1970. "Further Thoughts on Icons." In Icons of Popular Culture, edited by Marshall Fishwick and Ray B. Browne, Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Popular Press.

_____. 1970. McLuhan at York. Toronto: York University, Dept. of Instructional Aids Resources. 1 videocassette (VHS)(25 min.): sd., b&w.; 1/2 in.

_____. 1971. "Forward." Empire and Communications. By Harold A. Innis. rev. ed. 1950 (or reprint 1950.) Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

_____. 1971. "Forward." Empire and Communications. By Harold A. Innis. rev. ed. 1950 (or reprint 1950.) Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

_____. 16 March 1971. "How McLuhan Critics Should Read McLuhan ('McLuhan Critics of the World Unite')." Toronto Star: 7. Letter.

_____. 11 August 1971. "Mr. Miller, You're Putting Me On." The Listener. Published letter.

McLuhan, Marshall, and Barrington Nevitt. 1972. Take Today: The Executive as Dropout. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

McLuhan, Marshall. 18 September 1972. "McLuhan's Open Earlids vs. Barkway's Bite." Financial Times of Canada Reply to Review by Michael Barkway of Take Today: The Executive as Dropout.

_____. 20 October 1972. "Patterns Emerging in the New Politics." Toronto Globe and Mail: 7.

_____. 16 November 1972. "The End of the Work Ethic." Address to the Empire Club.

_____. December 1972. "Trudeau and Nixon in the Television Vortex." Saturday Night 87 (17): 17.

_____. 1973. "The Future of the Book." Do Books Matter? London, England: Dunn & Wilson.

_____. 1973. "Interview by Jean Pare." Forces 22 correspondence.

_____. 1973. "My Last Three Books." Centre for Culture and Technology: 1-8.n.p.

_____. 1973. "The Printed Word: Architect of Nationalism." In The Future of Literacy, edited by Robert Disch, - .Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall. The Human Futures series.

McLuhan, Marshall, and Barrington Nevitt. January 1973. "The Argument: Causality in the Electric World." Technology and Culture: Symposium 14 (1): 1-18.

_____. 20 June 1973. "La Revolution de l'information." Address at 1973 Biennale Internationale de l'Information, Le Toquet, France. This article was also published as "At the moment of Sputnik the planet became a global theatre in which there are no spectators but only actors," in Journal of Communication 24.1 (1974): 48 - 58.

_____. 29 December 1973 . "New Technology is Changing Human Identity." Toronto Star: B5.

_____. 1974. "Empedocles and T.S. Eliot." Introduction to Empedocles. By Helle Lambridis. Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1976.

_____. Spring 1974. "English Literature as Control Tower in Communication Study." English Quarterly 7 (1): 3-7.

_____. Winter 1974. "At the moment of Sputnik the planet became a global theatre in which there are no spectators but only actors." Journal of Communication 24 (1): 48-58.

_____. 1975. "At The Flip Point in Time-Point of More Return." Journal of Communication 25 (4): 102-06.

_____. 1975. "Communication: McLuhan's Laws of Media." Technology and Culture 16 (1): 74-78.

_____. January 1975. "McLuhan's Laws of the Media (Letter to Editor)." Technology and Culture 16 (1): . Also published in Indian Press 11.7 (July 1975): - .

_____. March 1975. "Man and Media." Address to York University's Gerstein Lecture Series, Forum on Communications 2000. In Communications Canada 2000, 1977.

_____. December 1975. "The Gap is Where the Action Is: Address to the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto 4 December 1975." Ontario Dentist, The Journal of the Ontario Dental Association 53, (6 ): 65.

_____. Autumn 1976. "Inside on the Outside, or the Spaced-Out American." Journal of Communication 26 (4): 46-53.

_____. 1976. "Misunderstanding Media's Laws." Technology and Culture 17 (2): 263. Letter.

McLuhan, Marshall, Eric McLuhan, and K. Hutchon. 1977. City as Classroom: Understanding Language and Media. Toronto: Book Society of Canada.

_____. 1977. "Laws of Media." English Journal 67 (8): 92-94. also published Et Cetera 34 (2): 173-179.

_____. 15 May 1977. "What Television is Doing to Us And Why." Washington Post: H1.

_____. June 1977. "Laws of the Media." Et Cetera 34 (2): 173-79.

_____. Autumn 1977. "The Rise and Fall of Nature." Journal of Communication 27 (4): 80-81.

_____. November-December 1977. "Cultures in the Electronic World: Can the Bottom Line Hold Quebec?" Perception 1 (2 ): 66-69.

McLuhan, Marshall, and Robert K. Logan. December 1977. "Alphabet, Mother of Invention." Et Cetera 34 (4): 373-83.

_____. 1978. "The Brain and the Media: The 'Western' Hemisphere." Journal of Communication 28 (4): 54-60.

_____. 1978. Pound Lecture: The Possum and the Midwife. University of Idaho. 21.

_____. 1978. "Rhetorical Spirals in Four Quartets." In Figures in a Ground: Canadian Essays on Modern Literature Collected in Honor of Sheila Watson, edited by Diane Bessai and David Jackel, 76-86. Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books.

_____. 1978. Review of Television: Technology and Cultural Form, by Raymond Williams. Technology and Culture 19 (2): 259-61.

_____. 17 March 1978. "A Last Look at the Tube." New York Magazine 11 (14): 45-48.

_____. 1979. 1981. "Review of The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early-Modern Europe, by Elizabeth I. Eisenstein". Renaissance and Reformation, 5, no.2

McLuhan, Marshall, and Bruce B. Powers. 1980. "Euclidean Space to Outer Space: An Informal Discussion of the Effects of Acoustic and Visual space in Communications." Et Cetera 37 (3): 224-37.

_____. Summer 1981. "Ma Bell Minus The Nantucket Gam-or The Impact of High-Speed Data-Transmission." Journal of Communication 31 (3): 191-99.

_____. Winter 1981. "Electronic Banking and the Death of Privacy." Journal of Communication 31 (1): 164-69.

_____. 1982. Preface. Harold A. Innis: A Memoir. By Eric A. Havelock. Toronto: Harold Innis Foundation.

McLuhan, Marshall. 1987. Letters of Marshall McLuhan. Edited by Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, and William Toye. Toronto: Oxford University Press.

_____. September 1987. "Dear Pierre (Excerpts from letters of Marshall McLuhan to Trudeau)." Saturday Night 102 (9): 42-44.

McLuhan, Marshall, and Eric McLuhan. 1988. Laws of Media: The New Science. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

McLuhan, Marshall, and Bruce B. Powers. 1989. The Global Village: Transformations in World Life and Media in the 21st Century. New York: Oxford University Press.

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