From 1939 to 1940, they lived in Cambridge, where McLuhan was awarded a master’s degree in January 1940 and worked on his dissertation for the doctorate about Elizabethanian playwright and author Thomas Nashe. On August 4, 1939, McLuhan married Corinne Lewis, a teacher from Fort Worth and a budding actress whom he had met in St. There he was required to complete a bachelor’s degree within four years before he could begin doctoral studies. After applying in vain for a Rhodes Fellowship to Oxford University, he was able to fulfill his wish to study in England at Cambridge University.
In 1934 he obtained a Master of Arts degree in English Studies after studying mechanical engineering for a year. In 1933 McLuhan obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree, winning a University Gold Medal in Arts and Sciences. His father Herbert Ernest McLuhan was an insurance salesman and mother Elsie Naomi an elocution teacher. Marshall McLuhan was born in Edmonton, Canada. You are the vanishing point.” (Marshall McLuhan) Marshall McLuhan – Youth and Education “In television, images are projected at you. McLuhan is known for coining the expressions the medium is the message and the global village, and for predicting the World Wide Web almost thirty years before it was invented. His groundbreaking work is considered to be the cornerstone of media and communication theory. On July 21, 1911, Canadian philosopher of communication theory Herbert Marshall McLuhan was born.
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