Format:
1 online resource (241 pages)
ISBN:
9780198043928
Series Statement:
Landscapes of the Imagination Ser.
Content:
In this vibrant cultural history, Eaude takes us on a revealing tour of Catalonia's breathtaking landscape, recounting the rich history of the region.
Content:
Cover page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Thoroughfare and Nation -- Part One-Birth and Rebirth of a Nation -- Chapter One: Portbou and Montserrat: Sea and Mountain -- Ghost Town -- Stephen Spender's Divided Heart -- Trapped: Walter Benjamin's Last Night -- Dark Lady of the Mountains: Montserrat -- Chapter Two: Mediterranean, the Centre of the Earth: Tarragona -- The City that Speaks Latin -- Empiiries: "whispering centuries of ghosts" -- Wetlands: The Emporda -- Chapter Three: Romanesque Catalonia: The Pyrenees -- Hispanic Marches -- Barrel Vaults and Towers -- The Boí Valley -- Besalú and Girona: The Jewish Tragedy -- Chapter Four: Glory and Rapine: Poblet and Athens -- "A great feudal monasteiy" -- Peace and Conquest -- Imperial Rapine -- Chapter Five: The Poet-Priest and the Indiano: Verdaguer and Antonio López -- The Renaissance -- Peasant Son and Poet -- Triumph and Fall -- The Slave-Trading Philanthropist -- Chapter Six: The Lancashire of Spain: Gaudí and Güell -- Putting out the Fires of Revolt -- Indianos -- Santa Coloma Colony -- The Chapel in the Woods -- Part Two-Geniuses -- Chapter Seven: Fleeing the Straight and Narrow: Gaudi and Reus -- Reus: Wealth in Stone -- Gaudí -- Gaudí's Reputation -- Palau Güell -- Sant Pau and the Sagrada Familia -- Chapter Eight: The Birth of Modern Painting: Rusñol at Sitges, Casas and Pablo Picasso -- The Iron Burrow -- Darwin's Monkey -- The Vertical Invader -- Chapter Nine: The Terminal Beach: Salvador Dali -- Castle and Theatre: Figueres -- Ambivalent Legacy -- Cadaqués -- Chapter Ten: Feet Rooted to the Red Earth: Joan Miró -- The Man Who Could Not Draw -- Fundació Miró -- Chapter Eleven: I Come from a Silence: Catalan Music -- Raimon -- Chimes to the Dead -- Traditional Roots -- Yearning Havanera and Sexy Rumba.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195327977
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780195327977
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=716674
