THE NEW RURALISM:
An Epistemology of Transformed Space
Joan Ramon Resina / William Viestenz (eds.)
THE NEW RURALISM:
An Epistemology of Transformed Space
Joan Ramon Resina and William Viestenz (eds.)
Iberoamericana • Vervuert • 2012
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The new ruralism : an epistemology of transformed space / Joan Ramon Resina, William Viestenz (eds.).
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN 978-8484896562 (iberoamericana editorial vervuert : alk. paper) --
ISBN 978-3-86527-708-4 (vervuert : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-936353-10-1 (iberoamericana vervuert publishing corp : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-3-86527-997-2 (ebook)
1. Country life in literature. 2. Rural conditions in literature. 3. Place (Philosophy) in literature. 4. Rural-urban migration in literature.
I. Resina, Joan Ramon. II. Viestenz, William.
PN56.C686N49 2012
809’.93321734--dc23
2012023944
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CONTENTS
Introduction: The Modern Rural
Joan Ramon Resina
1. Neo-ruralism in the European Context. Origins and Evolution
Joan Nogué
2. A Semi-Peircean Essay on «New Ruralism» by Means of Nature
Pere Salabert
3. Can Suburbia Think?
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
4. Sertão, City, Saudade
Marília Librandi Rocha
5. The Come Back of the Province. Giovannino Guareschi’s petits récits As Postwar terza via.
Joan Ramon Resina
6. The Priorat and the Landscaping of Catalan Terroir
Robert Davidson
7. Rural, Conceptual: The Non-Urban as a Significant Practice in Contemporary Catalan Culture
Margalida Pons
8. Leaving the City on Foot: Four Observations on Walking, Thinking and Writing in Contemporary Catalan Culture
Xavier Pla
9. De mots a terra: Linguistic Ruin in Francesc Serés’s L’arbre sense tronc
William Viestenz
10. A Catalan Peasant: Dalí’s Renewal of Surrealism
Enric Bou
11. Geology and Literature
Francesc Serés
12. That
Perejaume
Works Cited
Conceptual index
Name index
About the Contributors