A rhetoric of ruins : exploring landscapes of abandoned modernity /
A Rhetoric of Ruins combines conceptual and theoretical frameworks to explore ghost towns, disaster sites and environmental badlands as remnants of modernity. Methods of analysis include Jeremiadic, hauntological, psychogeographic and heterotopian ways of reading U.S. and international sites.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Books,
[2021]
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| Series: | Lexington studies in contemporary rhetoric.
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| Summary: | A Rhetoric of Ruins combines conceptual and theoretical frameworks to explore ghost towns, disaster sites and environmental badlands as remnants of modernity. Methods of analysis include Jeremiadic, hauntological, psychogeographic and heterotopian ways of reading U.S. and international sites. |
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| Physical Description: | xxiii, 193 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-184) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781793611512 1793611513 |