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Barcelona's Vocation of Modernity: Rise and Decline of an Urban Image

Barcelona's Vocation of Modernity: Rise and Decline of an Urban Image

Resina, Joan Ramon

Hardcover

General SociologySpainish & Portuguese History

ISBN10: 0804758328
ISBN13: 9780804758321
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Jul 9 2008
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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.

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