埃莱娜·兰贝蒂（Elena Lamberti），意大利博洛尼亚大学教授，研究媒介与文学的关系，在现代主义文学、北美文学、文化记忆、文学与媒介生态学以及文学与认知科学等几个交叉领域中都有建树。

Acknowledgments  xxix

Prologue  3

PART ONE: THE MOSAIC  39

2. Towards Post-Secondary Orality: The Mosaic  41

3. Thus Spoke the Oracle  66

4. Let the Guru Resound  78

5. A Conscious Modernist Craftsman  94

6. The Hyper-Language of the Media 'Fan'  108

PART TWO: MODERNIST ASCENDANCIES  121

7. McLuhan and Media Studies  123

8. From Literature to Media Studies  139

9. Ford Madox Ford: 'Not Mere Chat'  155

10. James Joyce: Vivisecting Society  179

11. Ezra Pound: Pursuing Persuasion, Translating Cultures  194

12. Wyndham Lewis: Blasting Time, Blessing Space  213

PART THREE: APPLIED McLUHAN  229

13. Literature and Media: A Round Trip  231

Epilogue: Witty Fool or Foolish Wit?  263

Notes  273

Bibliography  301

Index  319