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LEADER: 01693nam a22002778a 4500
001 2009034735
003 DLC
005 20090903131234.0
008 090824s2010 pau b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2009034735
020 $a9780271036656 (alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
050 0 $aBF378.S65$b.V58 2010
082 00 $a153.1/25$222
100 1 $aVivian, Bradford.
245 10 $aPublic forgetting :$bthe rhetoric and politics of beginning again /$cBradford Vivian.
260 $aUniversity Park, Pa. :$bPennsylvania State University Press,$c2010.
263 $a1003
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- 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.
520 $a"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.
650 0 $aMemory$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aHistory$xPhilosophy.
650 0 $aCollective memory.
650 0 $aRhetoric.