Table of Contents
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction Gregory Betts Paul Hjartarson Kristine Smitka xiii
Analepsis
1 Remembering McLuhan Leon Surette 2
I The Art of Being Read
2 The New Canadian Vortex: Marshall McLuhan and the Avant-Garde Function of Counter-Environments Gregory Betts 18
3 Watson, McLuhan (& Lewis): Conscious (Modernist) Solitudes, Challenging Canadians Elena Lamberti 38
4 Excellent Internationalists: How Sheila Watson and Marshall McLuhan Made Wyndham Lewis Influential Adam Hammond 58
II The Antennae of the Race
5 Dispatches from the DEW Line: McLuhan, Anti-Environments, and Visual Art across the Canada-US Border, 1966-1973 Adam Welch 86
6 Wilfred Watson, Playwright: Writing (to) McLuhan Paul Tiessen 106
7 Marshall McLuhan, General Idea, and Me! Philip Monk 148
III Art and Anti-Environment
8 Sheila Watson, Wyndham Lewis, and Men without Art Dean Irvine 168
9 "His Name Is Felix": Artist as Catalytic Agent and the Counter-Environment in Sheila Watson's The Double Hook Linda M. Morra 210
10 Magic, Monstrosity, and "the Mechanization of Death": Sheila Watson and Marshall McLuhan's Dialogue on Photography Kristine Smitka 230
Prolepsis
11 Marshall McLuhan as Vanishing Mediator Darren Wershler 250
Works Cited 277
Contributors 293
Index 295