Description:
This volume explores how rhetoric surrounding the urban and rural binary helps shape our understanding of those regions and the people who reside there.
Review Quotes: "This book fills an important niche in rhetoric and communication studies. The chapters contained here engage the growing conversation about regionalism--and its attendant terms like space and place--while exploring rural and urban settings. Each chapter demonstrates how rhetorical constructions of place and space weave into discourse as persuasive evidence, as affective resonance, and as interpretative frame. The scholarship is impressive, the essays are well-written, the volume is invaluable."--Greg Dickinson, Professor and Chair, Communication Studies, Colorado State University