Eastern Michigan University
The Monument of Memories as a place/space of multifarious rhetorical action
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>The number of people living with some form of dementia globally is growing. The absence of a cure, combined with this rapidly increasing presence of dementia, has directed attention away from fostering an understanding of the disease as it is socially experienced and toward the intricacies of determining its neurological properties. This study analyzes the Alzheimer Society of Windsor and Essex County’s Monument of Memories as a cultural form with the potential to (re)frame how the experience of dementia is socially conceptualized in Windsor, Ontario, and beyond. Specifically, I employ theoretical and methodological insights from participatory critical rhetoric, postmodern architectural language, and metonymic reduction to characterize the Monument of Memories as a place/space of multifarious rhetorical action.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Arts (MA)
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Open Access Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Communication, Media and Theatre Arts
- Year dc:date.available
- 2020
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Winkleseth, Meagan K.
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Nick Romerhausen, Ph.D.
- Jonathan Carter, Ph.D.
- Raymond Quiel, M.A.
Subjects
dc:subject × 7Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://commons.emich.edu/theses/1011
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:commons.emich.edu:theses-2402