Ong and McLuhan stayed in touch with one another over the years by exchanging letters with one another periodically. Some of McLuhan's letters to Ong over the years are reprinted in Letters of Marshall McLuhan, selected and edited by Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, and William Toye (Oxford University Press, 1987).
I gather that whenever Father Ong's business took him to Toronto, he would visit with Marshall and Corinne McLuhan and their children.
Father Ong's business took him to the University of Toronto in 1981 to deliver the Alexander Lectures. Ong's 1981 Alexander Lectures were subsequently published as Hopkins, the Self, and God (University of Toronto Press, 1986). As we might expect, Ong situates Hopkins in the larger cultural media ecology context of the history of orality and literacy in our Western cultural history.
Now, I mention here my way of proceeding to look over this new 2025 book to say that you might want to look over the "Index" in this new 2025 as your way of proceeding to get a sense of what all is discussed in it.
Now, a word is now in order here about me and my admittedly limited knowledge of Harold Innis.
My book Walter Ong's Contributions to Cultural Studies: The Phenomenology of the Word and I-Thou Communication in the Hampton Press Communication Series Media Ecology under supervisory editor Lance Strate of Fordham University (Hampton Press, 2000) received the Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology, conferred by the Media Ecology Association on June 15, 2001.
In my book, I discuss Marshal McLuhan extensively, because the young Canadian taught English at Saint Louis University for several years (1937-1944) when the young Walter Ong was sent to Saint Louis University as part of his lengthy Jesuit formation to study philosophy and English there. Young Ong took at least one course from young McLuhan, and then young McLuhan served as the director of Ong's Master's thesis on sprung rhythm in the posthumously published poetry of the Victorian Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889).
Ong's 1941 Master's thesis under McLuhan was published in 1949, slightly revised, as "Sprung Rhythm and the Life of English Poetry." The slightly revised 1949 version of Ong's essay was reprinted in An Ong Reader: Challenges for Further Inquiry, edited by Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup (Hampton Press, 2002, pp. 111-174).
However, for a cogent critique of and correction of Ong's account of Hopkins' sprung rhythm, see James I. Wimsatt's Hopkins's Poetics of speech sound: Sprung rhythm, Lettering, Inscape (University of Toronto Press, 2006).
However, some of my research about McLuhan took me into researching later years in life when he taught English at St. Mike's at the University of Toronto - at a time when Harold Innis was an intellectual giant at the University of Toronto. Consequently, I had to learn something about Harold Innis.
My research on Harold Innis at the time led me to list my research results in the "Bibliography" on my book (Farrell, 2000, pp. 229-287) as follows (in alphabetical order):
Carey, J. W. (1965). Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan. Antioch Review, 27, pp. 5-39.
Creighton, D. (1957). Harold Adams Innis: Portrait of a scholar. University of Toronto Press.
Havelock, E. A. (1982). Harold A. Innis: A memoir [pp. 13-43; "Preface" by Marshall McLuhan (pp. 9-10)]. Harold Innis Foundation.
Havelock, E. A. (1986). After words: A post script [A transcribed interview conducted by C. J. Swearingen]. Pre/Text: An Inter-Disciplinary Journal of Rhetoric, 7, pp. 201-208.
McLuhan, M. (1953). The later Innis. Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communications, Serial number 1, pp. 117-127.
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