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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781629203321

Autore

Fraser Benjamin

Titolo

Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish urban experience [[electronic resource] ] : reading the mobile city / / Benjamin Fraser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Bucknell University Press, with The Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, 2011

ISBN

1-283-28381-6

9786613283818

1-61148-369-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (404 p.)

Disciplina

860.9/355

Soggetti

Spanish literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Cities and towns in literature

City and town life in literature

City and town life - Spain

Sociology, Urban - Spain

Spain Civilization French influences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Henri Lefebvre and the city -- Henri Lefebvre's life, work and influence -- Key Lefebvrian concepts: critique of static space; critique of modern urban planning; critique of knowledge; critique of alienation in everyday life, movement and method -- The birth of the modern urban critic: Larra vs. Mesonero Romanos -- The living city: from Cerdà to Martín-Santos -- Traversing the city, from Millás to Delgado Ruiz -- Visualizing the mediterranean, from Goytisolo to the videogame -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience is the first book to thoroughly apply the French urban philosopher's thought on cities to the culture and literature of Spain. Fraser shows how Lefebvre's complex view of city as a mobile phenomenon is relevant to understanding a variety of Spanish cultural products-from urban plans and short writing on the urban expereince during the nineteenth century to urban theories, cultural practices and literary fiction of the



twentieth century, pushing on to interrogate even te apperance of Mediterranean space and Barcelona in recent videogames.