home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
Understanding McLuhan
/
Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso
/
pc
/
mcluhan.dxr
/
08884_Field_TCGG T649.txt
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1996-04-10
|
830b
|
16 lines
of the Roman road in engineering antecedents. The Roman road
was a by-product of papyrus and fast-moving couriers. Cesare
Foligno has the necessary approach to this kind of problem
when writing on “Vernacular Literature” in The Legacy of the
Middle Ages (p. 182): “Rome had produced no popular epics. . . .
These undaunted builders were wont to construct their epics
in stone; miles and miles of paved roads . . . must have
possessed an almost emotional appeal such as the long
sequences of single rhymed lines may have had for the French.”
Print, in turning the vernaculars into mass media, or closed
systems, created the uniform, centralizing forces of modern
nationalism.
* The French, more than any other modern nation, have
felt the unifying force of their vernacular as a national