{"id":25095,"date":"2011-08-08T16:00:54","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T20:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=25095"},"modified":"2011-08-08T16:00:54","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T20:00:54","slug":"frye-on-mcluhan-first-and-last-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2011\/08\/08\/frye-on-mcluhan-first-and-last-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Frye on McLuhan: First and Last References"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Summer Way: Norman Mailer &amp; Marshall McLuhan\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AuPwipHzRzc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Marshall McLuhan and Norman Miller go head-to-head in a 1968 debate on CBC television<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I have finally put together a compilation of Frye references to Marshall McLuhan across twenty-three volumes of the <em>Collected Works <\/em>&#8212; almost 20,000 words worth. This was a very illuminating experience. Once I have proof-read the collection, I will post it. I will also put together a post providing an overview, which will be the basis of a much longer paper that I hope will be one of my contributions to the Frye centenary next year.<\/p>\n<p>So, once again, here are a couple of quotes to prepare the palette: Frye&#8217;s first reference to McLuhan in his 1949 diary, and his last more than forty years later in an interview conducted in November 1990, two months before his death.<\/p>\n<p><em>From the 1949 diary<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Norma Arnett came up to me last night &amp; wanted to know why a poem she (and I remember to some extent) thought was good had not been considered even for honourable mention in the Varsity contest. . . I said the judge was just plain wrong (I think it was McLuhan, so it&#8217;s a reasonable enough assumption). (CW 8, 94)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">*<\/p>\n<p><em>From \u201cCultural Identity in Canada\u201d (27 November 1990: interview with Carl Mollins)<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Mollins:<\/strong> I suppose McLuhan has certainly acknowledged his debt to Innis and to you, I think?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frye:<\/strong> Well to Innis, not to me [<em>laughing<\/em>]. I suspect a great deal of that\u2014I think that\u2019s something to give the critics to play with. Innis was a man who worked like a vacuum cleaner, picking up books everywhere, and he saw something very distinctive in McLuhan, and so he asked McLuhan for autographs, and they did exchange some correspondence. There was a bit of mixture there. I think McLuhan was just a coming person and, with no special reputation at that time, was very flattered by this (as he should have been), and the result was that you get a rather Innis-McLuhan link. But I don\u2019t really see a great deal of influence from Innis on McLuhan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mollins:<\/strong> There is something in each of you\u2014the use of the aphorism, the cryptic utterance which compels a reader to dwell upon a sentence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frye:<\/strong> It is true that both McLuhan and I are rather discontinuous, mosaic writers of very different kinds. It\u2019s less true of Innis, although actually that book that Christian got out, <em>The Idea File of Innis<\/em>, does indicate that he thought aphoristically. That\u2019s certainly true of me. I keep notebooks and write aphoristically, and ninety-five per cent of the work I do is putting them out on a line, and then you have a continuous rhythm. 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