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In:The Great American Scaffold: Intertextuality and identity in American presidential discourse
Frank Austermühl
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 53] 2014
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Published online: 4 February 2014

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Acknowledgmentsix

1. American echoes: On intertextuality in American presidential discourse

2. “The voice of the nation”: The democratization of American presidential discourse

3. “To declare to the world”: Inaugural addresses, eternal topoi, and American civil religion

4. “Freedom and fear are at war”: The making of an American hypotext

5. “In the words of …”: Sacred texts, lieux de mémoire, and presidential allusions

6. The Great American Scaffold

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