Places of Public Memory
Download or Read eBook Places of Public Memory PDF written by Greg Dickinson and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2010-08-02 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Greg Dickinson |
| Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 2010-08-02 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780817356132 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0817356134 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Places of Public Memory by : Greg Dickinson
Book excerpt: 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 acci
