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He examines the rhetorical power of these sites to transformprivate individuals into public citizens, and he evaluates a national culture that teaches Americans to experience certain places as potent symbols of national community. Invoking Burke's concept of \"\"identification\"\" to explain such rhetorical encounters, Clark considers Burke's lifelong study of symbols - linguistic and otherwise - and their place in the construction and transformation of individual identity. Clark turns to Burke's work to expand our awareness of the rhetorical resources that lead individuals within a community to adopt a collective identity, and he considers the implications of nineteenth and twentieth-century tourism for both visual rhetoric and the rhetoric of display.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50719623774481,"sku":"CIN1570035393G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51037211820305,"sku":"NIN9781570035395","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1570035393.jpg?v=1763222300"},{"product_id":"dopamine-detox-book-gregory-clark-9781998038596","title":"Dopamine Detox","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50995370819857,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50995373474065,"sku":"NIN9781998038596","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1998038599.jpg?v=1751381404"},{"product_id":"the-best-of-gregory-clark-rare-book-gregory-clark-1737465176abs","title":"The Best of Gregory Clark","description":"\u003cp\u003e1959. 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