Barcelona's vocation of modernity : rise and decline of an urban image

Barcelona's vocation of modernity rise and decline of an urban image

The work traces the development of an urban image through texts that foreground key social and historical issues. The author 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 circular...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Resina, Joan Ramon (-)
Autor Corporativo: UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online) (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press cop. 2008.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b33911538*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the city as social form
  • The bourgeois city
  • Imagined city
  • Like moths to a lamp : foreigners in Barcelona's red-light district
  • A sojourn with the dead
  • The divided city and the divided self
  • The city of eternal returns
  • From the Olympic torch to the universal forum of cultures : the after-image of Barcelona's modernity.

Ejemplares similares