Overview
- Summary
- "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.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2010
- Contents
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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
Conclusion. - Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- Conclusion.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780271036656
0271036656 (alk. paper) - Physical Description
- x, 212 p. ; 24 cm.
Keywords & Subjects
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- 2010-05-13 14:03:00
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