Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/29461
Title: A Rhetoric of Walking and Reading: Immersion in Environmental Ambient Literature
Contributor(s): Paquet, Lili  (author)orcid 
Publication Date: 2020
Early Online Version: 2020-06-12
DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2020.1748216
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/29461
Abstract: Duncan Speakman’s ambient literature, It Must Have Been Dark by Then (2017), is a paperback book that is read in tandem with a smartphone app to create an immersive experience for readers. Readers walk local landscapes and create an individual map via the Global Positioning System, while listening to narratives of climate change from Latvia, Louisiana, and Tunisia. This essay completes a rhetorical critique and econarratologically close reading of Speakman’s book, and refers to rhetorical theories on walking by de Certeau, Mountford, Topinka, and Kalin and Frith. The essay concludes that Speakman’s readers immerse themselves in print, digital narrative, and actual environments, becoming performers and cocreators of individual narratives. The readers’ embodied immersion in the story allows it to transport them into distant environments affected by climate change.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 50(4), p. 268-282
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
Place of Publication: United States of America
ISSN: 1930-322X
0277-3945
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 200104 Media Studies
200508 Other Literatures in English
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 360202 Digital writing
360201 Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting)
470103 Environmental communication
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 950203 Languages and Literature
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 130103 The creative arts
130201 Communication across languages and culture
130204 The media
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
Appears in Collections:Journal Article
School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

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