Observation Points: The Visual Poetics of National Parks

Book Overview

National parks are the places that present ideas of nature to Americans: Zion, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone bring to mind quintessential and awe-inspiring wilderness. By examining how rhetoric--particularly visual rhetoric--has worked to shape our views of nature and the "natural" place of humans, Observation Points offers insights into questions of representation, including the formation of national identity.

As Thomas Patin...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816651469
• ISBN13: 9780816651467
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"