It was in the format of the daily press that Rimbaud and Mallarm… — “THE GALAXY RECONFIGURED or the Plight of Mass Man in an Individualist Society” in The Gutenberg Galaxy: the Making of typographic man (1965), p 268. * McLuhan is referring to his article “Joyce, Mallarmé and the Press", in The Sewanee Review, Vol.62, No.1, Jan-March (1954) p 38-55. Reprinted in The Interior Landscape The Literary Criticism of Marshall McLuhan, (1969), p 5-21

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It was in the format of the daily press that Rimbaud and Mallarmé discovered the means of rendering the interplay of all the functions of what Coleridge called the "esemplastic" imagination. *

“THE GALAXY RECONFIGURED or the Plight of Mass Man in an Individualist Society” in The Gutenberg Galaxy: the Making of typographic man (1965), p 268. * McLuhan is referring to his article “Joyce, Mallarmé and the Press", in The Sewanee Review, Vol.62, No.1, Jan-March (1954) p 38-55. Reprinted in The Interior Landscape The Literary Criticism of Marshall McLuhan, (1969), p 5-21

Quote #1191

Year: 1965

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