Empire and CommunicationsDundurn, 01.01.2007 - 288 Seiten It’s been said that without Harold A. Innis there could have been no Marshall McLuhan. Empire and Communications is one of Innis’s most important contributions to the debate about how media influence the development of consciousness and societies. In this seminal text, he traces humanity’s movement from the oral tradition of preliterate cultures to the electronic media of recent times. Along the way, he presents his own influential concepts of oral communication, time and space bias, and monopolies of knowledge. |
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... literary criticism and fine art, not through economic history and politics.There was very little intellectual or personal chemistry between the two men. Innis did put McLuhan's first book, The Mechanical Bride, on the reading list for ...
... literary criticism and fine art, not through economic history and politics.There was very little intellectual or personal chemistry between the two men. Innis did put McLuhan's first book, The Mechanical Bride, on the reading list for ...
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... before 2000 BC, but literary forms reached a high point after that date. Flinders Petrie, in illustrating his pattern of evolution of civilizations, suggests that Egyptian sculpture passed from archaism 42 HAROLD A. INNIS.
... before 2000 BC, but literary forms reached a high point after that date. Flinders Petrie, in illustrating his pattern of evolution of civilizations, suggests that Egyptian sculpture passed from archaism 42 HAROLD A. INNIS.
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... literary language and artificial composition. Egypt has been described as the first consciously literary civilization to cultivate literature for its own sake, but style outlived its first freshness and gave way to artificiality and ...
... literary language and artificial composition. Egypt has been described as the first consciously literary civilization to cultivate literature for its own sake, but style outlived its first freshness and gave way to artificiality and ...
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... literary and historical activity. Cultural pre-eminence was emphasized by religious scribes who made fresh copies of ancient texts which were arranged and stored in the library of the god, and prepared hymns, books, and litanies for the ...
... literary and historical activity. Cultural pre-eminence was emphasized by religious scribes who made fresh copies of ancient texts which were arranged and stored in the library of the god, and prepared hymns, books, and litanies for the ...
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... literary tradition.o Native religious literature centred entirely about Ashur. The royal annals alone were purely Assyrian in style and followed invention of the cylinder or hexagon on which crowded lines of script permitted longer ...
... literary tradition.o Native religious literature centred entirely about Ashur. The royal annals alone were purely Assyrian in style and followed invention of the cylinder or hexagon on which crowded lines of script permitted longer ...
Inhalt
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The Oral Tradition and Greek Civilization | 75 |
The Written Tradition and the Roman Empire | 106 |
Paper and the Printing Press | 138 |
Paper and the Printing Press | 164 |
Notes | 199 |
Marginalia | 220 |
Suggested Reading | 270 |
Index | 274 |
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