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the rhetoric and politics of beginning again

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Public forgetting
Bradford Vivian
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An edition of Public forgetting (2010)

Public forgetting

the rhetoric and politics of beginning again

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"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.

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Pennsylvania State University Press
Language
English

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Subjects
Memory, History, philosophy, Rhetoric

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Public Forgetting: The Rhetoric and Politics of Beginning Again
2010, Pennsylvania State University Press
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2010, Pennsylvania State University Press
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Table of 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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University Park, Pa

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
153.1/25
Library of Congress
BF378.S65 .V58 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23697148M
ISBN 13
9780271036656
LCCN
2009034735
OCLC/WorldCat
435917823

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