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Public forgetting : the rhetoric and politics of beginning again / Bradford Vivian.
LIBRA BF378.S65 V58 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vivian, Bradford.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Memory--Social aspects.
- Memory.
- History--Philosophy.
- History.
- Collective memory.
- Rhetoric.
- Physical Description:
- x, 212 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2010]
- Summary:
- "Reconsiders the negative status attributed to forgetting in both academic and popular discussions of public memory. Demonstrates how a community may adopt idioms of forgetting in order to create new and beneficial standards of public judgment concerning the lessons and responsibilities of its shared past"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Forgetting in public life : an idiomatic history of the present
- The two rivers, past and present
- Forgetting without oblivion
- Public forgetting : alternate histories, new heuristics
- Hallowed ground, hollow memory : rhetorical form and commemorative politics on September 11, 2002
- Historical forgetting : John W. Draper and the rhetorical dimensions of history
- Cultural forgetting : the "timeless now" of nomadic memories
- Moral and political forgetting : Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and Second Inaugural
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780271036656
- 0271036656
- OCLC:
- 435917823
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