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Article: Enviropop: Studies in Environmental Rhetoric and Popular Culture

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Enviropop: Studies in Environmental Rhetoric and Popular Culture Mark Meister and Phyllis M. Japp, Editors. Westchester, CT: Praeger, 2002.

This pioneering general study of one field of popular culture opens doors and suggests new fields of study. As such it is valuable. But although it faces in the right direction, it slugs along into the morass of incomplete and unclear definitions. The editors, two rhetoricians, are interested in developing the assumption that "[p ]opular culture is a major contributor to our understanding of the many facets of life, including the environment. So what and how do we learn environmental knowledge from popular culture?" They then propose that their book ...

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