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

by Clark, Gregory

• ISBN13: 9781570035395
• ISBN10: 1570035393
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-06-01
• Publisher: Ingram Distribution Publishing

Summary

At the same time a reading of Kenneth Burke and of tourist landscapes in America, Gregory Clark 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 explores how the symbolic experiences have helped residents of a vast and diverse nation adopt a national identity.

Author Biography

Gregory Clark is a professor of English at Brigham Young University and is editor of Rhetoric Society Quarterly.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Series Editor's Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction The Rhetorical Experience of Landscape	1	(11)
Landscape, National Identity, and Civic Tourism	12	(16)
New York City and the Public Experience of an American ``Scene''	28	(22)
Shaker Tourism and the Rhetorical Experience of the Aesthetic	50	(19)
Transcendence at Yellowstone	69	(24)
Public Experience along the Lincoln Highway	93	(27)
Constituting Citizens at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition	120	(27)
Conclusion Rhetorical Landscapes and the ``Ambiguities of Identification''	147	(16)
Bibliography	163	(8)
Index	171