New Explorations Weblog is proud to be the home of these special serialized features of posts and articles:
McLuhan’s Mileau
This series will link to full, archived copies of literary articles cited by Marshall McLuhan in his published and unpublished work, as well as articles which illuminate art criticism and historical commentary of the modernist age.
WHERE HAVE ALL THE READERS GONE, LONG TIME AGO?
By J.S. Porter www.spiritbookword.net for Marshall Soules, mentor and friend Among dead readers,…
THOMAS MERTON AND THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA
By J.S. Porter porterjs@rogers.com (for Susan McCaslin and Lynn R. Szabo…
The Electrical Conversion of Marshall McLuhan
Jean-François Vallée (Collège de Maisonneuve) This is the story of a personal quest. A few…
LOVE IN THE TIME OF COVID: THOUGHTS ON B.W. POWE’S MYSTERIA
By J.S. Porter* www.spiritbookword.net (for Sean Malone—poet, reader, friend) “An empty…
Probe: J. R. R. Tolkien’s Fantasy Novel, The Lord of the Rings, and Walter J. Ong’s Thought
Thomas J. Farrell University of Minnesota Duluth tfarrell@d.umn.edu Abstract: In my wide-ranging, and at times…
Remembered
This series catalogues fond reminiscences of Marshall McLuhan by friends and colleagues.
WHERE HAVE ALL THE READERS GONE, LONG TIME AGO?
By J.S. Porter www.spiritbookword.net for Marshall Soules, mentor and friend Among dead readers, recently Clive James, Harold Bloom, George Steiner And before them, Edward Said and Susan Sontag Hugh Kenner died a while back, too 2003 to be…
THOMAS MERTON AND THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA
By J.S. Porter porterjs@rogers.com (for Susan McCaslin and Lynn R. Szabo who inspire me with their poetic thought) ABSTRACT This article lays out some of the grounds for considering Thomas Merton as a candidate for the…
The Electrical Conversion of Marshall McLuhan
Jean-François Vallée (Collège de Maisonneuve) This is the story of a personal quest. A few years ago, as I was writing an article describing Marshall McLuhan as the first truly “electric” intellectual,[1] I discovered that “oracle of the electric age”…
LOVE IN THE TIME OF COVID: THOUGHTS ON B.W. POWE’S MYSTERIA
By J.S. Porter* www.spiritbookword.net (for Sean Malone—poet, reader, friend) “An empty page is a paradise inviting you to a feast.” “We tell stories so we won’t disappear.” Mysteria, a book of love, a book of dreams,…
Probe: J. R. R. Tolkien’s Fantasy Novel, The Lord of the Rings, and Walter J. Ong’s Thought
Thomas J. Farrell University of Minnesota Duluth tfarrell@d.umn.edu Abstract: In my wide-ranging, and at times deeply personal, “Probe: J. R. R. Tolkien’s Fantasy Novel, The Lord of the Rings, and Walter J. Ong’s Thought,” I succinctly highlight the philologist and…