Sinners, lovers, and heroes : an essay on memorializing in three American cultures / Richard Morris.
Sinners, lovers, and heroes : an essay on memorializing in three American cultures / Richard Morris.
Sinners, lovers, and heroes : an essay on memorializing in three American cultures / Richard Morris.
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Albany : State University of New York Press, c1997.
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N973.7092/L736/8
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English
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Physical content
xxi, 237 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Publisher
Albany : State University of New York Press, c1997.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c1997.
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Summary
This book advances the thesis that memorials are fundamentally rhetorical and cultural forms of expression, that a careful examination of American memorializing discloses the contours of at least three distinct American cultures, and that shifting visual and discursive memorial patterns across time reveal the ascendancy and subordination of these t...
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Sinners, lovers, and heroes : an essay on memorializing in three American cultures / Richard Morris.
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SUNY series in communication and the struggle for identity in postmodernity.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-225) and index.
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c1997.
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N973.7092/L736/8
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74VMyg0aXgQX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMyg0aXgQX
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ISBN
0791434931 (hc : alk. paper)
079143494X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780791434932 (hc : alk. paper)
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973.7092
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991002118369702626
