Rhetorical Senses of the 'Summer of a Lifetime': The Choric Translation of Aesthetic Appeals

• In Event: Scholar to Scholar II

Abstract

I attend to the reiterating processes of aesthetic elements that become marked and bound by signs. Such a process reveals the rhetoricity of sensuous knowledge. I argue that at Camp Lela, this rhetoric is constituted through an aesthetic of precision, excess, and a hyper-real construction of the natural. These aesthetics are experienced through the choric processes of counselors and campers becoming together amid the strictures and structures of the total institution.

Author

• Diane Keeling, University of Colorado, Boulder