Barcelona's vocation of modernity rise and decline of an urban image /
Joan Ramon Resina.
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, (c)2008.
- 1 online resource (x, 272 pages) : illustrations, plans.
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.