Public Forgetting : : The Rhetoric and Politics of Beginning Again / / Bradford Vivian.
Forgetting is usually juxtaposed with memory as its opposite in a negative way: it is seen as the loss of the ability to remember, or, ironically, as the inevitable process of distortion or dissolution that accompanies attempts to commemorate the past. The civic emphasis on the crucial importance of...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2015] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1. Forgetting in Public Life: An Idiomatic History of the Present
- Part 2. Public Forgetting: Alternate Histories, New Heuristics
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index