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

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
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