Ruination as invention: reconstructions of space and time in a deindustrial landscape
This dissertation argues that the symbolic force of deindustrial Rust Belt decline is expressed through patterns of rhetorical invention, what I call ruination rhetorics. Ruination, I argue, works to construct divergent orientations toward space and time in representations of the Rust Belt. I trace...
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University of Iowa
2015
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| Online Access: | https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1640 https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5692&context=etd |