Presents new ways of understanding the old dichotomy city vs country in an effort to think through the epistemological and artistic implications of the modern antinomy's demise, whereby the non-city ceases to be the city's absolute other.
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- Introduction: The Modern Rural
- 1. Neo-ruralism in the European Context. Origins and Evolution
- 2. A Semi-Peircean Essay on «New Ruralism» by Means of Nature
- 3. Can Suburbia Think?
- 4. Sertão, City, Saudade
- 5. The Come Back of the Province. Giovannino Guareschi’s petits récits As Postwar terza via.
- 6. The Priorat and the Landscaping of Catalan Terroir
- 7. Rural, Conceptual: The Non-Urban as a Significant Practice in Contemporary Catalan Culture
- 8. Leaving the City on Foot: Four Observations on Walking, Thinking and Writing in Contemporary Catalan Culture
- 9. De mots a terra: Linguistic Ruin in Francesc Serés’s L’arbre sense tronc
- 10. A Catalan Peasant: Dalí’s Renewal of Surrealism
- 11. Geology and Literature
- 12. That
- Works Cited
- Conceptual index
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- About the Contributors
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