Rhetorics of Display

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ISBN: 9781570036194

ISBN-10: 1570036195

ISBN-13: 9781570036194

Edition: 2006

Authors: Lawrence J. Prelli, Thomas W. Benson

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Rhetorics of Display is a pathbreaking volume that brings together a distinguished group of scholars to assess an increasingly pervasive form of rhetorical activity. Editor Lawrence J. Prelli notes in his introduction that twenty-first century citizens continually confront displays of information and images, from the verbal images of speeches and literature to visual images of film and photography to exhibits in museums to the arrangement of our homes to the merchandising of consumer goods. The volume provides an integrated, comprehensive study of the processes of selecting what to reveal and what to conceal that together constitute the rhetorics of display. Surveying major historical…

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List price: $32.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Publication date: 6/30/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 7.06" wide x 10.04" long x 1.16" tall
Weight: 2.134
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Series Editor's Preface


Acknowledgments



Rhetorics of Display: An Introduction




The Verbal Depiction of the Visual and the Visual Depiction of the Verbal



Satisfaction of Metaphorical Expectations through Visual Display: The Titanic Exhibition




"This Horrible Spectacle": Visual and Verbal Sketches of the Famine in Skibbereen




Visualizing a Bounded Sea: A Case Study in Rhetorical Taxis




Liberal Representation and Global Order: The Iconic Photograph from Tiananmen Square




The Disposition of Place and the Placing of Disposition



National Park Landscapes and the Rhetorical Display of Civic Religion




Envisioning Postcommunism: Budapest's Stalin Monument




Displaying Race: Cultural Projection and Commemoration




After Walter Benjamin: The Paradise at the End of the Rainbow




Death on Display




Demonstrations as Rhetorical Display and Rhetorical Displays as Demonstrative



Demonstrative Displays of Dissident Rhetoric: The Case of Prisoner 885/63




It's Showtime! Staging Public Demonstrations, Alinsky-Style




Creating Real Presences: Displays in Liminal Worlds




Epideictic Identifications and Divisions



Epideictic and Its Cultured Reception: In Memory of the Firefighters




Flaunting Identity: Spatial Figurations and the Display of Sexuality




Tattoo and Piercing: Reflections on Mortification




Colin Powell's Life Story and the Display of a "Good" Black Persona




Displaying the Body Politic: Televisual Exposures and Concealments



Selected Bibliography


Contributors


Index