Front cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Epigraph: re maelström and vortex -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction | Betts, Hjartarson and Msitka -- ANALEPSIS -- 1 Remembering McLuhan | Surrette -- I THE ART OF BEING READ -- 2 The New Canadian Vortex | Betts -- 3 Watson, McLuhan (& -- Lewis) | Lamberti -- 4 Excellent Internationalists | Hammond -- II THE ANTENNAE OF THE RACE -- 5 Dispatches from the DEW Line | Welch -- 6 Wilfred Watson, Playwright | Tiessen -- 7 Marshall McLuhan, General Idea, and Me! | Monk -- III ART AND ANTI-ENVIRONMENT -- 8 Sheila Watson, Wyndham Lewis, and Men without Art | Irvine -- 9 "His Name Is Felix" | Morra -- 10 Magic, Monstrosity, and "the Mechanization of Death" | Smitka -- PROLEPSIS -- 11 Marshall McLuhan as Vanishing Mediator | Wershler -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index -- Other Titles from The University of Alberta Press.
Situating the intellectual inheritance of Canadian vorticists in a multidisciplinary assemblage of authors and artists.