Vivian, Bradford and Anne Teresa Demo. “Introduction.” Rhetoric, Remembrance, and Visual Form. Eds. Anne Teresa Demo and Bradford Vivian. New York: Routledge, 2012. eBook.
“inherently susceptible to distortion, such that they deprive us of sight and memory precisely in appearing to furnish them” (Vivian and Demo)
“acute sensitivity to this interplay of presence and absence, of constant conjunction and disjunction among visual and memorial forms” (Vivian and Demo)
“The notion that visual forms and forms of memory share the same ostensible substance is one of the most deeply engrained structures of feeling in late modernity” (Vivian and Demo)
“rhetorical form and function of the materiality that inheres between images and memory” (Vivian and Demo)
“memory is profoundly informed by visual media, through rhetorical dynamics: visual and memorial forms coalesce according to the ways in which practices of interpretation, argumentation, or communication assign shared meaning” (Vivian and Demo)
“the past is not preserved but is reconstructed on the basis of the present” (Halbwach quoted in Vivian and Demo)
“interpretive, argumentative, or communicative content of images as well as memories” (Vivian and Demo)
“rhetorical confluences of visual and memorial forms” (Vivian and Demo)
“how images may express seemingly permanent and transient impressions of the past” (Vivian and Demo)
“images may provide material sites of memory” (Vivian and Demo)
“The relevant rhetorical question is why material intersections among images and memory sometimes succeed and sometimes fail as persuasively wrought depictions—or sightings—of the past” (Vivian and Demo)
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