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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wood, Andrew F. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2021]
Series:	Lexington studies in contemporary rhetoric.
Subjects:	Ruins, Modern. Collective memory and city planning. Waste lands. Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986. Shrinking cities > Michigan > Detroit.

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