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Rhetorical landscapes in America : variations on a theme from Kenneth Burke /

"Gregory Clark's new study explores the rhetorical power connected with American tourism. Looking specifically at a time when citizens of the United States first took to rail and then highway to become sightseers in their own country, Clark traces the rhetorical function of a wide-ranging...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Clark, Gregory, 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, [2004]
Colección:Studies in rhetoric/communication.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The rhetorical experience of landscape
  • Landscape, national identity, and civic tourism
  • New York City and the public experience of an American "scene"
  • Shaker tourism and the rhetorical experience of the aesthetic
  • Transcendence at Yellowstone
  • Public experience along the Lincoln Highway
  • Constituting citizens at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition
  • Conclusion: rhetorical landscapes and the "ambiguities of identification."