SMC219Y1 Chapter Notes -Print Culture, Master Sergeant, Group Dynamics
30 Oct 2012
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Frye and mcluhan similarities and differences of their background. Transformation in canadian creative imagination from pioneers" days to the present. Canada has advantage over other cultures with electrified global culture. In mcluhan, pride of citizenship comes with the certainty of being where the action is, in global terms. Mcluhan focuses on the peculiar character of canadian. Canada is a land of multiple borderlines with low profile identity and this reflects the ideal pattern of electronic living. Canadians keep a borderline mentality for mcluhan, this is the vortex of energy, how canadians are in and out at the same time at an interface position, resonating interval. For frye, there is a sense of belonging to an environment that"s growing to maturity. Both positions come from the shared ground, the place geographical locus, that subliminally sets the path of collective imagination. Focus on haunting image of leviathan figured as land that engulfs early settlers.
