A Rhetoric of Ruins: Exploring Landscapes of Abandoned Modernity

by Andrew F. Wood

A Rhetoric of Ruins combines conceptual and theoretical frameworks to explore ghost towns, disaster sites, and environmental badlands as remnants of modernity. Methods of analysis include Jeremiadic, hauntological, psychogeographic, and heterotopian ways of reading U.S. and international sites.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1793611513
• ISBN13: 9781793611512
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"