A rhetoric of ruins: exploring landscapes of abandoned modernity

Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books (2021)
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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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