{"product_id":"rhetorical-landscapes-in-america-variations-on-a-theme-from-kenneth-burke-hardcover","title":"Rhetorical Landscapes in America: Variations on a Theme from Kenneth Burke - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGregory Clark\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA panoramic explanation of \"civic tourism\" and the shaping of a national identity\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClark examines places in the American landscape that have facilitated such experiences, including New York City, Shaker villages, Yellowstone National Park, the Lincoln Highway, San Francisco's 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, and the Grand Canyon. He examines the rhetorical power of these sites to transform private individuals into public citizens, and he evaluates a national culture that teaches Americans to experience certain places as potent symbols of national community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInvoking Burke's concept of \"identification\" to explain such rhetorical encounters, Clark considers Burke's lifelong study of symbols--linguistic and otherwise--and their place in the construction and transformation of individual identity. Clark turns to Burke's work to expand our awareness of the rhetorical resources that lead individuals within a community to adopt a collective identity, and he considers the implications of nineteenth- and twentieth-century tourism for both visual rhetoric and the rhetoric of display.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGregory Clark\u003c\/b\u003e studies rhetoric and the variety of ways that it operates in American culture. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eDialogue, Dialectic, and Conversation: A Social Perspective on the Function of Writing\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eOratorical Culture in Nineteenth-Century America: Transformations in the Theory and Practice of Rhetoric.\u003c\/i\u003e Clark is a professor of English at Brigham Young University and is editor of Rhetoric Society Quarterly. He lives in Provo, Utah.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 181\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 9.32 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 31, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51755505615136,"sku":"9781570035395","price":76.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/1eb808cf044f8a74edc4d039b54a87d6.webp?v=1780060867","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/rhetorical-landscapes-in-america-variations-on-a-theme-from-kenneth-burke-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}