Barcelona's Vocation of Modernity

Joan Ramon Resina

ISBN 10: 0804758328 / ISBN 13: 9780804758321

Published by Stanford University Press, 2008

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: Barcelona's Vocation of Modernity es un estudio del surgimiento y desarrollo de la imagen cultural de la ciudad moderna más importante de la península ibérica. Este libro analiza la evolución de la imagen de Barcelona a lo largo del tiempo, explorando su ascenso y declive como símbolo de modernidad. A través de un análisis profundo, Joan Ramon Resina examina cómo la ciudad ha sido percibida y representada en diferentes contextos culturales e históricos. EAN: 9780804758321 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Historia Título: Barcelona's Vocation of Modernity Autor: Joan Ramon Resina Idioma: en Páginas: 288 Formato: tapa dura.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Barcelona's Vocation of Modernity
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804758328
• ISBN 13: 9780804758321
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Bueno

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Synopsis

Since the closing decades of the nineteenth century, Barcelona has striven to sustain an image of modernity that distinguishes itself within Spain. Barcelona's Vocation of Modernity traces the development of that image through texts that foreground key social and historical issues. It begins with Barcelona's "coming of age" in the 1888 Universal Exposition and focuses on the first major narrative work of modern Catalan literature, La febre d'or. Positing an inextricable link between literature and modernity, Resina establishes a literary framework for the evolution of the image of Barcelona's modernity through the 1980s, when the consciousness of modernity took on an ironic circularity. Because the city is an aggregation of knowledge, Resina draws from sociology, urban studies, sociolinguistics, history, psychoanalysis, and literary history to produce a complex account of Barcelona's self-reflection through culture. The last chapter offers a glimpse into the "post-historical" city, where temporality has been sacrificed to the spatialization associated with the seductions of the spectacle.

About the Author

Joan Ramon Resina is Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Stanford University. He is the author of a number of books, including El cadáver en la cocina: La novela policiaca en la cultura del desencanto (1997) and El postnacionalisme en el mapa global (2004). Among his distinctions are the Fulbright Fellowship and the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship.