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Distant Publics : Development Rhetoric and the Subject of Crisis.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Composition, Literacy, and Culture SeriesPublisher: PIttsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (241 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822978015
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Distant PublicsDDC classification:
  • 307.1/4014
LOC classification:
  • P301
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Rhethorical Vistas -- 1. Rhetoric's Development Crisis -- 2. The Public Subject of Feeling (with Exceptions) -- 3. Vultures and Kooks: The Rhetoric of Injury Claims -- 4. Lost Places and Memory Claims -- 5. The Good and the Bad: Gentrification and Equivalence Claims -- 6. Inquiry as Social Action -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
Summary: Jenny Rice examines patterns of public discourse that have evolved in response to development in urban and suburban environments. Centering her study on Austin, Texas, Rice provides case studies of development disputes that place the reader in the middle of real-life controversies and evidence her theories of claims-based public rhetorics.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Rhethorical Vistas -- 1. Rhetoric's Development Crisis -- 2. The Public Subject of Feeling (with Exceptions) -- 3. Vultures and Kooks: The Rhetoric of Injury Claims -- 4. Lost Places and Memory Claims -- 5. The Good and the Bad: Gentrification and Equivalence Claims -- 6. Inquiry as Social Action -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

Jenny Rice examines patterns of public discourse that have evolved in response to development in urban and suburban environments. Centering her study on Austin, Texas, Rice provides case studies of development disputes that place the reader in the middle of real-life controversies and evidence her theories of claims-based public rhetorics.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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