What does Morris and tombstones contribute to our understanding of
everyday writing?
I think that after reading Morris' article about "Death on Display", we can consider tombstones and memorials a part of everyday writing. Tombstones reflect a persons culture and worldview in a rhetoric design. Tombstones and memorials honor a deceased person and it is this rhetoric that they operate under. Often inscriptions are made to either honor or to offer wisdom/insight because the purpose of a tombstone is to offer a connection to the physical world to the world of the dead. It is its exigency to its rhetorical situation. Like other forms of everyday writing, tombstones are more in depth than its rhetoric. The deceased person of which the tombstone or memorial is made gives it a specific audience. A gravestone for a former president, for example, would have a much bigger audience as opposed to the gravestone of my grandmother. They each would have different quotes or inscriptions that reflect their life journey. In this way, memorials are variable and very personal. Although they vary, these pieces of writings are made to elect a certain response, to grief.
A graves meaning is also influenced by location, medium, audience, and font just as other pieces of everyday writing is. A person may choose to be buried where they spent the majority of their life, which affects the audience available and also is taken into consideration to the retrospection of the deceased. Tombs can be made from a variety of materials; marble, granite, stone, some may choose to be cremated and be stored in an urn. A person my choose their inscription to be written in italics or bold print. All these choices made reflect who this person is and who they want to be remembered as, it is this personal non-industrialized approach that makes tombstones a part of everyday writing.
everyday writing?
I think that after reading Morris' article about "Death on Display", we can consider tombstones and memorials a part of everyday writing. Tombstones reflect a persons culture and worldview in a rhetoric design. Tombstones and memorials honor a deceased person and it is this rhetoric that they operate under. Often inscriptions are made to either honor or to offer wisdom/insight because the purpose of a tombstone is to offer a connection to the physical world to the world of the dead. It is its exigency to its rhetorical situation. Like other forms of everyday writing, tombstones are more in depth than its rhetoric. The deceased person of which the tombstone or memorial is made gives it a specific audience. A gravestone for a former president, for example, would have a much bigger audience as opposed to the gravestone of my grandmother. They each would have different quotes or inscriptions that reflect their life journey. In this way, memorials are variable and very personal. Although they vary, these pieces of writings are made to elect a certain response, to grief.
A graves meaning is also influenced by location, medium, audience, and font just as other pieces of everyday writing is. A person may choose to be buried where they spent the majority of their life, which affects the audience available and also is taken into consideration to the retrospection of the deceased. Tombs can be made from a variety of materials; marble, granite, stone, some may choose to be cremated and be stored in an urn. A person my choose their inscription to be written in italics or bold print. All these choices made reflect who this person is and who they want to be remembered as, it is this personal non-industrialized approach that makes tombstones a part of everyday writing.
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