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

Marshall McLuhan

ISBN 10: 1584230673 / ISBN 13: 9781584230670

Published by Gingko Press, Corte Madera, California, 2006

HARDCOVER.Gingko Press, Corte Madera, California First edition Quarto in English xv, 276 pages. Original heavy dark brown cloth with embossed bind stamp patten and white lettering to spine. Patterned yellow/brown endpapers. Pale yellow dustjacket with grey lettering to cover and spine. Introduction, 4 chapters, bibliography and index at rear. Book in fine condiiton. Dustjacket near fine with slight wear. See photographs. Book 4557 location 7-3. Seller Inventory # 4557

Synopsis:

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In this previously unpublished work, a young McLuhan, as cultural historian, illuminates the complexities of the classical trivium, provides the first ever close reading of the enigmatic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 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 rhetoric in classical learning.

Under McLuhan's scholarly microscope, the internal dynamics of the trivium and its purpose are revealed. As is its indispensable role in giving full due to the rich prose of Thomas Nashe. In ranging over literature from Cicero to the sixteenth century, McLuhan discovers the source and significance of multiple traditions in Nashe's writings. Here, more than half a century after it was written, is a fresh, insightful, and richly coherent framework for studying Nashe and an unequivocal call for a program of education based on the ambitious and lofty ideal of reintegrating the classical trivium.

About the Author: Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1980) was honoured for his achievemnets by institutions and governments across Europe and North America. His books have been published in more than a dozen languages and continue to sell throughout the world.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Classical Trivium: The Place of Thomas ...
Publisher: Gingko Press, Corte Madera, California
Publication Date: 2006
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: 1st Edition