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Places of Public Memory
. Ed(S): Dickinson, Greg; Blair, Carole; Ott, Brian L.
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Description for Places of Public Memory
Paperback. "Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials" is a sustained and rigorous consideration of the intersections of memory, place, and rhetoric. Editor(s): Dickinson, Greg; Blair, Carole; Ott, Brian L. Series Editor(s): Lucaites, John Louis. Series: Rhetoric, Culture & Social Critique. Num Pages: 294 pages, 26 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AMGD; GTC; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 486.
Though we live in a time when memory seems to be losing its hold on communities, memory remains central to personal, communal, and national identities. And although popular and public discourses from speeches to films invite a shared sense of the past, official sites of memory such as memorials, museums, and battlefields embody unique rhetorical principles. ‘Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials’ is a sustained and rigorous consideration of the intersections of memory, place, and rhetoric. From the mnemonic systems inscribed upon ancient architecture to the roadside accident memorials that line America’s highways, memory and place ... Read more
Though we live in a time when memory seems to be losing its hold on communities, memory remains central to personal, communal, and national identities. And although popular and public discourses from speeches to films invite a shared sense of the past, official sites of memory such as memorials, museums, and battlefields embody unique rhetorical principles. ‘Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials’ is a sustained and rigorous consideration of the intersections of memory, place, and rhetoric. From the mnemonic systems inscribed upon ancient architecture to the roadside accident memorials that line America’s highways, memory and place ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
Series
Rhetoric, Culture & Social Critique
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817356132
SKU
V9780817356132
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