Public Forgetting : The Rhetoric and Politics of Beginning Again /

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Vivian, Bradford
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Rhetoric.
Collective memory.
History > Philosophy.
Memory > Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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