Catalonia : a cultural history / by Michael Eaude.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eaude, Michael.

Series:

Landscapes of the imagination.

Landscapes of the imagination

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catalonia (Spain)--Civilization.

Catalonia (Spain).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Luton] : Andrews, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Squeezed between more powerful France and Spain, Catalonia has endured a violent history. Its medieval empire that conquered Naples, Sicily and Athens was crushed by Spain. Its geography, with the Pyrenees falling sharply to the rugged Costa Brava, is tormented, too.Michael Eaude traces this history and its monuments: Roman Tarragona, celebrated by the poet Martial; Greek Empuries, lost for centuries beneath the sands; medieval Romanesque architecture in the Vall de Boi churches (a World H...

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Front Matter; Title Page; Publisher Information; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction - Thoroughfare and Nation; Birth and Rebirth of a Nation; 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; Mediterranean, the Centre of the Earth: Tarragona; The City that Speaks Latin; Empúries: "whispering centuries of ghosts"; Wetlands: the Empordà; Romanesque Catalonia: The Pyrenees; Hispanic Marches; Barrel Vaults and Towers; The Boí Valley

Besalú and Girona: the Jewish Tragedy; Glory and Rapine: Poblet and Athens; "A great feudal monastery"; Peace and Conquest; Imperial Rapine; The Poet-Priest and the Indiano: Verdaguer and Antonio López; The Renaissance; Peasant Son and Poet; Triumph and Fall; The Slave-Trading Philanthropist; The Lancashire of Spain: Gaudí and Güell; Putting out the Fires of Revolt; Indianos; Santa Coloma Colony; The Chapel in the Woods; Geniuses; Fleeing the Straight and Narrow: Gaudí and Reus; Reus: Wealth in Stone; Gaudí; Gaudí's Reputation; Palau Güell; Sant Pau and the Sagrada Família

The Birth of Modern Painting: Rusiñol at Sitges, Casas and Pablo Picasso; The Iron Burrow; Darwin's Monkey; The Vertical Invader; The Terminal Beach: Salvador Dalí; Castle and Theatre: Figueres; Ambivalent Legacy; Cadaqués; Feet Rooted to the Red Earth: Joan Miró; The Man Who Could Not Draw; Fundació Miró; I Come from a Silence: Catalan Music; Raimon; Chimes to the Dead; Traditional Roots; Yearning Havanera and Sexy Rumba; Tourism and War; The Sweaty Groin: Barcelona's Raval; Chinatown; Squalor and Gentrification; Rambling; The Gothic Quarter, Barcelona; The Museum-City; Cathedral and Cloister

Plaça del Rei; Santa Maria del Mar; Mass Migration and Mass Tourism: Lloret; Contested Spaces; City of Noise; Package Holidays and the Changing Costa Brava; Lloret; Plain and River: Lleida and the Ebro; City of the Plain; Mequinensa: Drowned Town; Yellow Fog along the Ebro Valley; A Dying Delta; The Anarchist Dream: George Orwell and Revolution; Rose of Fire; Revolutionary Days: Orwell in Catalonia; Crushing the Revolution; The Landscape in the Pot: Food, Drink and Identity; Cava; Catalan Cuisine; The Boqueria: the Religion of Food; The Dalí of Cuisine; Cradle and Refuge: FC Barcelona; Triumph and Tragedy; Football and Nationalism; Catalonia is not Spain; End Matter; Further Reading; Glossary; Also Available

Notes:

First published in 2007 by Signal Book.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-41181-4

9786613411815

1-908493-25-9

OCLC:

763157371