Public forgetting : the rhetoric and politics of beginning again / Bradford Vivian.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Vivian, Bradford, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Rhetoric.
• Memory--Social aspects.
• Collective memory.
• History--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 212 p. )

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : 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.
• Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

• 9780271051376
• 027105137X

OCLC:

1253312919