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1 online resource (xxvi, 296 pages) : illustrations |
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Introduction: Naturalizing rhetoric / Thomas Patin -- Being here, looking there: Mediating vistas in the national parks of the contemporary American West / Robert M. Bednar -- Remembering Zion: Architectural encounters in a national park / Gregory Clark -- Roadside wilderness: U.S. national park design in the 1950s and 1960s / Peter Peters -- Critical vehicles crash the scene: Spectacular nature and popular spectacle at the Grand Canyon / Mark Neumann -- How German is the American West? The legacy of Caspar David Friedrich's visual poetics in American landscape painting / Sabine Wilke -- Yellowstone National Park in metaphor: Place and actor representations in visitor publications / David A. Tschida -- Image/text/geography: Yellowstone and the spatial rhetoric of landscape / Gareth John -- Can patriotism be carved in stone? A critical analysis of Mount Rushmore's orientation films / Teresa Bergman -- Thinking like a mountain: Mount Rushmore's gaze / William Chaloupka -- George Catlin's wilderness utopia / Albert Boime -- Memorials and mourning: Recovering native resistance in and to the monuments of the nation / Stephen Germic -- America's best idea: Environmental public memory and the rhetoric of conservation civics / Cindy Spurlock -- America in ruins: Parks, poetics, and politics -- Thomas Patin. |
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9780816679515 electronic bk. |
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0816679517 electronic bk. |
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