Text and experience in a historical pageant: Toward a rhetoric of spectacle

Rhetoric Society Quarterly

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 5-17

  Halloran, S Michael ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

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EID: 85011524810     PISSN: 02773945     EISSN: 1930322X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02773940109391212     Document Type: Article

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