Museum Rhetoric: Building Civic Identity in National Spaces - Couverture rigide

Weiser, M. Elizabeth

 
9780271079035: Museum Rhetoric: Building Civic Identity in National Spaces
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ISBN 10 : 0271079037 ISBN 13 : 9780271079035
Editeur : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017

Synopsis

In today's diverse societies, museums are the primary institutions within the public sphere in which individuals can both engage critical thought and celebrate community. This volume uses the lens of rhetoric to explore the role these societal repositories play in establishing and altering cultural heritage and national identity.

Based on fieldwork conducted in over sixty museums in twenty-two countries across six continents, Museum Rhetoric explores how heritage museum exhibits persuade visitors to unite their own sense of identity with that of the broader civic society and how the latter changes in response. Elizabeth Weiser examines what compels communities, organizations, and nations to create museum spaces, and how museums operate as sites of both civic engagement and rhetorical persuasion. Moving beyond rhetorical explorations of museums as "memory sites," she shows how they intentionally straddle the divides between style and content, intellect and affect, and unity and diversity, and why their portrayal of the past matters to civic life--and particularly studies of nationalism--in the present and future.

Deeply researched and artfully argued, Museum Rhetoric sheds light on the public impact of cultural and aesthetic heritage and opens avenues of inquiry for scholars of museum studies and public history.

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À propos de l?auteur

M. Elizabeth Weiser is Professor of English at The Ohio State University. She has published three other books, most recently Women and Rhetoric Between the Wars, coedited with Ann George and Janet Zepernick.

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Éditeur
Pennsylvania State University Press
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0271079037
ISBN 13 
9780271079035
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
232
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780271079042: Museum Rhetoric: Building Civic Identity in National Spaces

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ISBN 10 :  0271079045 ISBN 13 :  9780271079042
Editeur : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018
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