Description: Companion to Catalan Culture, Hardcover by Keown, Dominic (EDT), ISBN 1855662272, ISBN-13 9781855662278, Brand New, Free shipping in the US The tragic fate of the millenary personality of Catalonia has rarely been fully appreciated abroad. Since the early eighteenth century its national voice has been submerged and fractured by a centralist state intent on its arbitrary, unitarian vision of a homogenized Spain. Catalan difference has emerged sporadically in the persons of such irrepressible geniuses as Gaudí, Dalí, Miró and Bigas Luna but, in the configuration of modern Europe, the relentless inevitability of the unified state has imposed and re-imposed its singular cultural voice. The present volume attempts to equip the English-speaking reader with a fuller understanding of the uniqueness and quality of the culture of Catalonia by providing a comprehensive portfolio of the creative contribution of the nation across a broad spectrum of achievement. Though the artistic wealth of the medieval period is acknowledged appropriately, this study, with its focus on the modern age, privileges excellence not only in the more conventional, academic spheres of history, music, language, literature and the arts but also explores the value of more basic, popular experience in areas such as sport, cinema, festivals, cuisine and the city of Barcelona. DOMINIC KEOWN is Reader in Catalan at the University of Cambridge. CONTRIBUTORS: Elisenda Barbé, Robert Davidson, Alexander Ibarz, Louise Johnson, Dominic Keown, Tess Knighton, Jaume Martí-Olivella, Dorothy Noyes, Montserrat Roser i Puig, Antoni Segura, Miquel Strubell.
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Book Title: Companion to Catalan Culture
Number of Pages: 282 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Companion to Catalan Culture
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, The Limited
Publication Year: 2011
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: European / Spanish & Portuguese, Europe / Spain & Portugal, Popular Culture, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Customs & Traditions
Type: Textbook
Author: Dorothy Noyes
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Social Science, History
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Series: Issn Ser.
Format: Hardcover
