"Rhetoric, and Memory/History/Critique"

(Image from the Jane Campion film "The Piano")

The following is the reading list for John Louis Lucaites seminar course in rhetorical criticism titled "Rhetoric, and Memory/History/Critique":

Bodnar, John. Remaking America: Public Memory, Commemoration, and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1992.

Card, Orson Scott. Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus. New York: Thomas Dougherty Assoc., 1996.

Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Trans. Alan Sheridan. New York: Random House.

Handler, Richard, and Eric Gable. The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1997.

Hawlbachs, Maurice. The Collective Memory. Trans. Francis J. Ditter, Jr. and Vita Yazdi. New York: Harper, 1950.

History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past, ed. Edward T. Linenthall and Tom Englehardt. New York: Henry Holt, 1996.

Lipsitz, George. Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture. Minneapolis, U of Minnesota P, 1990.

Sturken, Marita. Tangled Memories; The Vietnam War, The AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering. Berkeley, CA: U of California P, 1997.

Zelizer, Barbie. Remembering to Forget: Holocaust Memory Through the Camera's Eye. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1999.