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Barcelona's vocation of modernity rise and decline of an urban image / Joan Ramon Resina.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, (c)2008.Description: 1 online resource (x, 272 pages) : illustrations, plansContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780804787505
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • DP402 .B373 2008
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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 circularity.
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction DP402.265 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn872395771

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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 circularity.

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