At home here and abroad the rhetoric of presence and narratives of place

• Main Author: Doyle, William C.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange 2008
• Subjects: English; Antarctic; Mader; Pratt; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/6010; https://trace.tennessee.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7943&context=utk_graddiss

Successful nature and travel writing evokes a sense of place, allowing a reader to "see" what he or she has not yet seen or cannot witness. This success depends on a writer's facility with the rhetoric of presence, the ability to develop language that evokes unseen, or as yet unimagin...