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Communication Matters
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Communication Matters

by Jeremy Packer, Stephen B. Crofts Wiley
June 2013
Intermediate to advanced
302 pages
11h 21m
English
Routledge
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Chapter 6

Rhetoric, materiality, and US Western Front commemoration

V. William Balthrop , Carole Blair and Neil Michel

 

The memorialization of the Western Front was one of the most extraordinary periods of landscape creation in modern memory.

(Heffernan, 1995: 311)

Heffernan’s observation serves as our point of departure in accessing the modes by which interwar US memorialization on the Western Front was produced and how it has been continually reproduced. The invented landscape Heffernan marks is not just a periodized memorial production; it is an assemblage of commemorative places always being produced. Thus, we take particular US locations on the Western Front as exemplars of practiced, rhetorical memory places (Blair et al., 2010: 22–32). ...

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