Rhetorical Landscapes in America: Variations on a Theme from Kenneth Burke - Hardcover
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Rhetorical Landscapes in America: Variations on a Theme from Kenneth Burke
A panoramic explanation of "civic tourism" and the shaping of a national identity
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,...
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...
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