A rhetoric of ruins exploring landscapes of abandoned modernity

"A Rhetoric of Ruins combines conceptual and theoretical frameworks to explore ghost towns, disaster sites, and environmental badlands as remnants of modernity. Methods of analysis include Jeremiadic, hauntological, psychogeographic, and heterotopian ways of reading U.S. and international sites...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wood, Andrew F.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Maryland Lexington Books, [2021]
Series:	Lexington studies in contemporary rhetoric.
Subjects:	1986 Michigan > Detroit. Ukraine > Chornobylʹ. Ruins, Modern. Collective memory and city planning. Waste lands. Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986. Shrinking cities > Michigan > Detroit. Chernobyl Nuclear Accident Ruines modernes. Mémoire collective et urbanisme. Friches. Accident nucléaire de Tchernobyl, Tchernobyl, Ukraine, 1986. Villes en décroissance > Michigan > Detroit. wasteland. Shrinking cities. Electronic books. EBSCO eBooks
Online Access:	EBSCOhost Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ

Table of Contents:

Chapter One:
Yesterday's tomorrows
Chapter Two:
Post-human futures
Chapter Three:
American carnage
Chapter Four:
Bodie's ghostly gaze
Chapter Five:
Detroit's guilty pleasures
Chapter Six:
Centralia's graffiti highway
Chapter Seven:
Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
Chapter Eight:
The Doorway to Hell.

A rhetoric of ruins exploring landscapes of abandoned modernity

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