It is the problem of translation of the auditory into the visual… — "Joyce, Mallarmé and the Press", in The Sewanee Review, Vol.62, No.1, Jan-March (1954), p 40, reprinted in The Interior Landscape The Literary Criticism of Marshall McLuhan, (1969), p .7

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It is the problem of translation of the auditory into the visual and back again, which is the process of writing and reading, that brings the interior monologue into existence, as can be observed in the study of pre-literate cultures today

"Joyce, Mallarmé and the Press", in The Sewanee Review, Vol.62, No.1, Jan-March (1954), p 40, reprinted in The Interior Landscape The Literary Criticism of Marshall McLuhan, (1969), p .7

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Year: 1954

Chapter: Reading