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Public Forgetting : The Rhetoric and Politics of Beginning Again /
"Reconsiders the negative status attributed to forgetting in both academic and popular discussions of public memory. Demonstrates how a community may adopt idioms of forgetting in order to create new and beneficial standards of public judgment concerning the lessons and responsibilities of its...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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University Park, Pa. :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Forgetting in public life : an idiomatic history of the present
- The two rivers, past and present
- Forgetting without oblivion
- Public forgetting : alternate histories, new heuristics
- Hallowed ground, hollow memory : rhetorical form and commemorative politics on September 11, 2002
- Historical forgetting : John W. Draper and the rhetorical dimensions of history
- Cultural forgetting : the "timeless now" of nomadic memories
- Moral and political forgetting : Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and Second Inaugural
- Conclusion.