{"product_id":"rhetorical-landscapes-in-america-gregory-clark-9781570035395","title":"Rhetorical Landscapes in America: Variations on a Theme from Kenneth Burke","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gregory Clark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1570035393\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781570035395\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of South Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/31\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 181\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.32h x 6.30w x 0.80d","brand":"Gregory Clark","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46401790771455,"sku":"9781570035395","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_adbf2d61-c6ce-473f-8228-aa329f05ab39.jpg?v=1733888718","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rhetorical-landscapes-in-america-gregory-clark-9781570035395","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}