Sinners, Lovers, and Heroes: An Essay on Memorializing in Three American Cultures

This book advances the thesis that memorials are fundamentally rhetorical and cultural forms of expression, that a careful examination of American memorializing discloses the contours of at least three distinct American cultures, and that shifting visual and discursive memorial patterns across time reveal the ascendancy and subordination of these three cultures and their cultural memories. It unveils a mode of human expression that embodies the ethoi and worldviews of divergent American cultures - each of which has possessed and continues to seek to possess America's hegemonic voice and to become (or remain) the custodian of America's collective memory.

About the author

Richard Morris is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Northern Illinois University.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Morris
• Publisher: Global Academic Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.1997
• EAN: 9780791434932
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-3493-2
• No. of pages: 237
• Weight: 617 g
• Series: Suny Series, Communication & t; Suny Series, Communication and
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Soziologie, zweite Hälfte 19. Jahrhundert (1850 bis 1899 n. Chr.), Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)