Readers’ Forum Introduction: The Age of McLuhan, 100 Years On

English Professor and author of McLuhan in Space: A Cultural Geography, Richard Cavell considers the implications of McLuhan's intellectual legacy for the study of literature in Canada and ultimately for the fate of the academy. [...]City as Classroom: Understanding Language and Media (1977), co-written just before his death with Kathryn Hutchon and his son Eric, is a text intending to engage high-school students with the taken-for-granted world around them and to equip them with some analytic tools to understand the broader significances of their new medial (electric) environment. [...]Wayne DeFehr takes us on a tour of the multiple links McLuhan has drawn between media and mythology.