Neoliberal style, the American re-generation, and ecological jeremiad in Thomas Friedman's "code Green"

Environmental Communication

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 135-151

  Singer, Ross ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

American Myth; Globalization; Jeremiad; Neoliberal Rhetoric; Popular Environmental Literature; Realist Style; Rhetoric of Economics

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650087649     PISSN: 17524032     EISSN: 17524040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17524031003775646     Document Type: Article

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