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

Marshall McLuhan, W Terrence Gordon · 2 HN comments

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 In this previously unpublished work, a young McLuhan, as cultural historian, illuminates the complexities of the classical trivium, provides the first ever close reading of the enigmatic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

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Dec 06, 2021 · rgrieselhuber on This is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium is the Message (1967) [video]

McLuhan's dissertation, "The Classical Trivium," is well worth the read:
https://www.amazon.com/Classical-Trivium-Place-Thomas-Learni...

⬐ dredmorbius
TIL, thanks!
You might be able to find a copy at a library. It's not at Archive.org / OpenLibrary or LibGen. Yet.
https://www.worldcat.org/title/classical-trivium-the-place-o...

⬐ awarpaz
Hey, you can find it on Z-Lib.

⬐ aspenmayer
I can confirm that a 223.28 MB PDF on Z-Library seems to be the work in question. (ISBN 1-58423-067-3) Their clearnet URLs are down right now, but the TOR link is up.
http://loginzlib2vrak5zzpcocc3ouizykn6k5qecgj2tzlnab5wcbqhem...

⬐ dredmorbius
Many thanks.

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Dec 11, 2018 · kurosawa on Warhol’s Bleak Prophecy

His faith background plays out more explicitly in his doctoral thesis; several ideas therein were precursors to his later-popularized notions:
https://www.amazon.com/Classical-Trivium-Place-Thomas-Learni...
Short review summarizing the work: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Phil_Rose/publication/3...

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