{"product_id":"barcelonas-vocation-of-modernity-9780804758321","title":"Barcelonas Vocation of Modernity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBarcelona's Vocation of Modernity is a study of the emergence and development of the cultural image of the Iberian peninsula's foremost modern city.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is undoubtedly a major contribution both to Catalan Studies and to urban studies. Building on an impressive theoretical framework that combines sociology, history, philosophy, urban studies, sociolinguistics, psychoanalysis, and literary and cultural theory, Joan Ramon Resina offers here a social and cultural history of modern Barcelona . . . Through his readings Resina shows with great originality and intelligence the complexities, ambiguities and ambivalences that plague this history.\" -- Josep-Anton Fernàndez * Open University of Catalonia, \u003ci\u003eBulletin of Spanish Studies\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"This is an impressive attempt to include Barcelona within a welter of major philosophical and ideological speculation on the theme of the European metropolis. . . . A whole series of musings of eminent authorities—from Benjamin, Certeau, Baudrillard, Foucault, Habermas, Lefebvre, Lyotard, Simmel, and Marx—are adduced with ease and conviction to offer a comprehensive and thoroughly stimulating study.\" -- Dominic Keown * Cambridge University *\u003cbr\u003e\"Resina's book has a resolute and convincingly interdisciplinary scope and a sustained theoretical depth that creates a unique and highly intelligent critical discourse on Barcelona and its modernity . . . Professor Resina's brilliant intellectual undertaking on the complexity of Barcelona's experience of modernity and its representations makes \u003ci\u003eBarcelona's Vocation of Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e a must-read book, an obligatory reference for all scholars, students, and readers who want to talk about any of the issues, texts, and events discussed in the book.\" -- \u003ci\u003eIberoamericana\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The author's deep knowledge of theory transforms his reflections on Barcelona's particular construction of modernity and its representations into an exceptional contribution to the current critical discussion on the city as modern and postmodern cultural space. . . . The intelligent and highly original connections he establishes between apparently disparate issues, events, and texts . . . reveal their full signification.\" -- Elisa Martí-López * Northwestern University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  @toc4:List of Figures, xxx  Acknowledgments, xxx  @toc2:Introduction: The City as Social Form, 1  1. The Bourgeois City, 00  2. Imagined City, 00  3. Like Moths to a Lamp: Foreigners in Barcelona's Red-  Light District, 000  4. A Sojourn With the Dead, 000  5. The Divided City and the Divided Self, 000  6. The City of Eternal Returns, 000  7. From the Olympic Torch to the World Forum of Cultures:   The After-Image of Barcelona's Modernity, 000  Notes, 000  Works Cited, 000  Index, 000  @fmct:Figures  @fmli: Captions  Fig. 1. Poster for the Universal Exposition of 1888 by L   Ruiz, Madrid, 1888, 000  Fig. 2. Alfred Guesdon,. \"Aerial View of Barcelona,\" 1860,   000  Fig. 3. Estacio de Franca, 2005, 000  Fig. 4. Estacio de Franca. First special train with soccer   fans leaving for Valencia, 1920, 000  Fig. 5. Estacio de Franca, Train Hall, 000  Fig. 6. Llotja, 18701879, 000  Fig. 7. Interior of a house in Altafulla with Joan Busquets   suite of furniture, c. 1900, 000  Fig. 8. High relief by Eusebi Arnau, Casa Amatller, 1900,   000  Fig. 9. Passeig de Gracia, 18701879, 000  Fig. 10. Ildefons Cerda, plan of the outskirts of Barcelona   and proposal for the reform and expansion of the city by   the highway, canal and port engineer, 1859, 000  Fig. 11. Antoni Rovira i Trias, plan of the project for the   enlargement of the city of Barcelona, 1859, 000  Fig. 12. Leon Jaussely, general plan for the connections   project. 1905, 000  Fig. 13. Ramon Casas, \"The Charge,\" 1899, 000  Fig. 14. The Parallel, 000  Fig. 15. \"A gallant lady in the cozy room of a merry house   in Barcelona,\" 000  Fig. 16. \"A girl from the low district attempting one more   conquest,\" 000  Fig. 17. La Placa del Diamant, 1934, 000  Fig. 18. Ricard Bofill, Walden 7, 000  Fig. 19. Ricard Bofill, Walden 7, 000Fig. 20. Antoni Gaudi,   Sagrada Familia, Passion Facade, 000  Fig. 21. Universal Exposition. 1929, 000  Fig. 22. Enric Miralles, Diagonal Mar, 000  Fig. 23. Lighting of Olympic Torch, 1992, 000  [[AUTHOR\/COPY EDITOR: SEE ART LOG. All 3 images are part of   1 figure, 1 caption.]]Fig. 24. Jean Nouvel, Agbar Tower,   000  Fig. 25. Interpellating the Mayor, 2004, 000  Fig. 26. Logo of the Barcelona Forum, 2004, 000  Fig. 27. Anti-Forum activists, July 2004, 000  Fig. 28. Fireworks, World Forum of Cultures, September   2004, 000","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405572383063,"sku":"9780804758321","price":52.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804758321.jpg?v=1730492879","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/barcelonas-vocation-of-modernity-9780804758321","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}