Rhetorical Landscapes in America: Variations on a Theme from Kenneth Burke

Abstract

Introduction: The rhetorical experience of landscape -- Landscape, national identity, and civic tourism -- New York City and the public experience of an American "scene" -- Shaker tourism and the rhetorical experience of the aesthetic -- Transcendence at Yellowstone -- Public experience along the Lincoln Highway -- Constituting citizens at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition -- Conclusion: rhetorical landscapes and the "ambiguities of identification."