Rhetorical Landscapes in America: Variations on a Theme from Kenneth Burke - Couverture rigide

Clark, Gregory

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1570035393 ISBN 13 : 9781570035395

Editeur : University of South Carolina Press, 2004

Synopsis

At the same time a reading of Kenneth Burke and of tourist landscapes in America, 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 set of tourist experiences. He explores how the symbolic experiences Americans share as tourists have helped residents of a vast and diverse nation adopt a national identity. In doing so he suggests that the rhetorical power of a national culture is wielded not only by public discourse but also by public experiences.

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À propos de l'auteur

Gregory Clark studies rhetoric and the variety of ways that it operates in American culture. He is the author of Dialogue, Dialectic, and Conversation: A Social Perspective on the Function of Writing and coeditor of Oratorical Culture in Nineteenth-Century America: Transformations in the Theory and Practice of Rhetoric. Clark is a professor of English at Brigham Young University and is editor of Rhetoric Society Quarterly. He lives in Provo, Utah

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of South Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1570035393
• ISBN 13: 9781570035395
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 176
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