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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 the city as a mobile phenomenon is relevant to understanding a variety of Spanish cultural products--from urban plans and short writing on the urban experience during the nineteenth century to urban theories, cultural practices and literary fiction of the twentieth century, pushing on to interrogate even the appearance of Mediterranean space and Barcelona in recent video games.
List of contents
Acknowledgments Introduction: Henri Lefebvre and the City Chapter 1: The Birth of the Modern Urban Critic (Larra vs. Mesonero Romanos) Chapter 2: The Living City (From Cerda to Martin-Santos) Chapter 3: Traversing the City (From Millas to Delgado Ruiz) Chapter 4: Visualizing the Mediterranean (From Goytisolo to the Videogame) Conclusion Notes References Index
About the author
Benjamin Fraser is assistant professor of Spanish at the College of Charleston in South Carolina and managing editor of the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies.
