Catalan ReviewPub Date : 2014-07-18DOI: 10.3828/CATR.28.1.39
Teresa Mañà
{"title":"Eugeni d'Ors i la Construcció del Projecte Bibliotecari de la Mancomunitat de Catalunya","authors":"Teresa Mañà","doi":"10.3828/CATR.28.1.39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/CATR.28.1.39","url":null,"abstract":"The role of Eugeni d'Ors in relation to libraries in Catalonia has been overshadowed by the weight of the other intellectual contributions of this writer and politician. Ors's role, however, was fundamental in the creation of the Biblioteca de Catalunya; later, thanks to Prat de la Riba, who as president of the Mancomunitat commissioned him to create a library system, Ors designed and planned a library network. He also created the Escola de Bibliotecaries, the first center in Spain of higher education for library professionals. His rationale followed the guidelines of the \"free libraries\" in Europe and the United States, which Ors knew well and held up in contrast to the antiquated local model. We will discuss the text of the project for the establishment of public libraries to analyze Ors's vision of public libraries as an instrument of cultural regeneration.","PeriodicalId":37617,"journal":{"name":"Catalan Review","volume":"28 1","pages":"39-55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/CATR.28.1.39","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70396677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Catalan ReviewPub Date : 2014-07-18DOI: 10.3828/CATR.28.1.83
Mercè Altimir Losada
{"title":"Reflexions sobre l'experimentació poètica de Joan Brossa i la traducció dels processos inconscients","authors":"Mercè Altimir Losada","doi":"10.3828/CATR.28.1.83","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/CATR.28.1.83","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyses Joan Brossa's experimentation with hypnagogic images and, at a later stage, letters (object and visual poems). In the process it attempts to put forward some general thoughts on man's relationship with language, a problem that directly involves translation and the concept of equivalence in translation. Using the work of Freud as a guide, I explore the origins of the debate on the phenomenon of hypnagogic images. I then look at Lacan's concept of the \"letter\" (lettre) in seeking to gain an understanding of some of Brossa's output and of the existence of a wall in translation.","PeriodicalId":37617,"journal":{"name":"Catalan Review","volume":"28 1","pages":"83-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/CATR.28.1.83","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70396879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Catalan ReviewPub Date : 2014-07-18DOI: 10.3828/CATR.28.1.135
Kenneth Brown, Juan Manuel Martínez Alonso
{"title":"Textos Manuscrits Culturals de L'època Moderna en Llengua Catalana Existents en la Col·lecció de la Hispanic Society of America (1)","authors":"Kenneth Brown, Juan Manuel Martínez Alonso","doi":"10.3828/CATR.28.1.135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/CATR.28.1.135","url":null,"abstract":"The following is a four-part descriptive study of sixty-one hitherto unknown-to-exist Catalan-language cultural manuscripts dating from 1500 to the 1930s extant in the Library of the Hispanic Society of America in New York. This collection contains a considerable number of eighteenth-century poems in Catalan, works dealing with social history, the history of the trades, municipal documentation as well as personal correspondence, a unique 1705 medical treatise, in addition to dozens of Sardana musical scores. After a brief Introduction, the authors focus on the salient cultural virtues of manuscript HC 380/632, a fairly unitary poetic anthology of works penned in Barcelona during the latter two decades of the eighteenth century. It provides keen insights into the festive activities of the city's religious orders, as well into the daily occurrences of its secular world. All this in Catalan, a language that was supposed to have ceased to exist as the lingua franca of everyday communication during the regime ...","PeriodicalId":37617,"journal":{"name":"Catalan Review","volume":"28 1","pages":"135-160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/CATR.28.1.135","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70396307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Catalan ReviewPub Date : 2014-07-18DOI: 10.3828/CATR.28.1.171
Magí Sunyer Molné
{"title":"The Earliest Theater of Eduard Vidal i Valenciano: Literature of a New Society","authors":"Magí Sunyer Molné","doi":"10.3828/CATR.28.1.171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/CATR.28.1.171","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that the Catalan literature of the 1860s, specifically in the theater, which was then beginning to be cultivated, reflected the profound social changes that were occurring in Catalan society, and more importantly in Barcelona, as a result of industrialization and the introduction of modern state structures. This paper examines the first dramatic works of Eduard Vidal i Valenciano, a writer belonging to the popular group of Frederic Soler and Josep Anselm Clave, but also connected with the organizers of the Floral Games of Barcelona. This examination provides insight into the social impact of the new Catalan literature, and more specifically of the new theater and Clave's work; the emergence of a new social class —the working class— with its specific problems; ideologies such as Republicanism, with its iconography and its own symbolic universe; and, more modestly, it records the concern for hygiene and for alternative medicine such as homeopathy. All of these p...","PeriodicalId":37617,"journal":{"name":"Catalan Review","volume":"28 1","pages":"171-188"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/CATR.28.1.171","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70396354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Catalan ReviewPub Date : 2014-07-18DOI: 10.3828/CATR.28.1.19
William R. Viestenz
{"title":"Sense, Landscape, Stimmung: Eco-Epistemology in the Work of Toni Sala and Víctor Català","authors":"William R. Viestenz","doi":"10.3828/CATR.28.1.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/CATR.28.1.19","url":null,"abstract":"The central concern of this essay is not to simply delineate the myriad resemblances between Sala and Catala's fiction, though there are many. Instead, I first postulate that Sala's Rodalies, by re-presenting Catala's Solitud from a twenty-first century perspective, produces a double time that demonstrates the breach between the archetypal and historical reality of a key symbol of the Catalan literary and political imaginary: the mountain. Secondly, I put forth that Rodalies artfully portrays how the disorder and fragmentation of a runaway, globalized world implodes what the sociologist Joan Nogue calls a differentiated geography of les emocions. The putative homogenization of a flattened out globalized world is shown in Rodalies to actually be a chaotic mosaic of sights and sounds without the clear demarcations of place featured in Nogue's geographical concept. Borrowing from the Romanticist merging of the aesthetic and the newer terrain of eco-criticism, I will put forth that the hybridization of sensor...","PeriodicalId":37617,"journal":{"name":"Catalan Review","volume":"28 1","pages":"19-38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/CATR.28.1.19","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70396430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Catalan ReviewPub Date : 2014-07-18DOI: 10.3828/CATR.28.1.3
E. Illas
{"title":"From Elegies de Bierville to Separatism: Constituent Power or Global War?","authors":"E. Illas","doi":"10.3828/CATR.28.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/CATR.28.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"The elegy IX of Carles Riba's Elegies de Bierville, written in occupied France in 1941, contains an apparent contradiction about the role of war in the construction of democracy. On the one hand, Riba writes that, in order to found democracy, the Greeks did not have to win the war against Persia; all they needed was to recognize and accommodate the longing for freedom of a particular group of Athenians. On the other hand, however, the poem suggests in the end that war is also part of democracy, as those who are not free, the universal \"vanquished,\" can only regain their souls by acting as soldiers who fight for freedom. My paper undertakes a historical reading of Riba's political elegy and relates its contradiction to the emergence of separatism in contemporary Catalonia. My question is whether we must understand separatism as a longing for democracy or as a war to obtain state power. To formulate this question, I juxtapose Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's notion of \"constituent power,\" which theorizes t...","PeriodicalId":37617,"journal":{"name":"Catalan Review","volume":"28 1","pages":"3-17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/CATR.28.1.3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70396614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Catalan ReviewPub Date : 2014-07-18DOI: 10.3828/CATR.28.1.189
I. Piquer
{"title":"Els Paradisos oceànics d'Aurora Bertrana: de l'espai mític al turisme depredador de la Polinèsia","authors":"I. Piquer","doi":"10.3828/CATR.28.1.189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/CATR.28.1.189","url":null,"abstract":"A few years ago the works of Aurora Bertrana (1892-1974) were rescued from oblivion. The direct expression of the author was revalued, as well as her point of view, which was innovative and unashamed in the twenties and thirties and remains undeniable today. Ocean Paradises (1930) was the travel book that gave her fame as a writer and traveler. She said it was a book written from the innocence of a novice writer, and the critics have spoken of a text soaked in a Rousseaunian conception of Polynesian reality. This paper studies Bertrana's work from the innovative perspective of the anthropology of tourism, and discusses whether it is appropriate to consider Aurora Bertrana's travel prose as the point of view of an \"alternative tourist,\" in the terminology used by Mowforth and Munt. In Bertrana's prose, otherness and authenticity are united in a desire to ensure the preservation of culture and ethnicity of the other.","PeriodicalId":37617,"journal":{"name":"Catalan Review","volume":"28 1","pages":"189-205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/CATR.28.1.189","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70396410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Catalan ReviewPub Date : 2014-07-18DOI: 10.3828/CATR.28.1.207
Miquel M. Gibert
{"title":"Joan Oliver i el Teatre de Txèkhov","authors":"Miquel M. Gibert","doi":"10.3828/CATR.28.1.207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/CATR.28.1.207","url":null,"abstract":"Joan Oliver's versions of Chekhov's plays stem from Oliver's interest in the Russian playwright. However, what promoted their continuity and performance was the Agrupacio Dramatica de Barcelona (ADB) and independent theater groups such as Teatre Experimental Catala (TEC) or Teatre de la Gavina. Thanks to them, Chekhov's theater would undergo a gradual integration into Catalan theater and literature that would become wide and definitive from the 1980s. For Oliver, his versions of Chekov were a way of contributing to the renovation and consolidation of Catalonia's theater at the extraordinarily difficult moment that Catalan culture experienced during the Spanish post-war period. This article looks at the circumstances surrounding the performance of Oliver's versions from the early 1950s to the late 1960s and their reception by the theater critics of the Barcelona press. The latter, pressed to write short articles to tight deadlines, often failed to give Oliver's text the attention it deserved, and although ...","PeriodicalId":37617,"journal":{"name":"Catalan Review","volume":"28 1","pages":"207-232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/CATR.28.1.207","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70396569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Catalan ReviewPub Date : 2014-07-18DOI: 10.3828/CATR.28.1.57
Olga Sendra Ferrer
{"title":"Urban Projections: The Search for the Democratic City in the Photography of Joan Colom","authors":"Olga Sendra Ferrer","doi":"10.3828/CATR.28.1.57","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/CATR.28.1.57","url":null,"abstract":"This article seeks to trace the foundations of a democratic Barcelona during Franco's dictatorship as registered by the photographic lens of Joan Colom (1921-), who between 1958 and 1961 took as part of his subject matter the interior margins of the Raval. There, his photography conceives a city whose material base depends precisely on its multiplicity, on the difference that the construction of a socially and culturally homogeneous Barcelona was designed to eliminate. With his wanderings through everyday life in the Raval, he heralds the possibility of a new urban order and the notion of a democratic public space, which breaks with the rectilinear design that the regime sought to impose through the fragmentation of the city. Echoing the urban formulations of Henry Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, and Manuel Delgado, Colom's conception of Barcelona's organization emphasizes a mobile city, a Barcelona constructed not through its materiality, but from the movements and relationships of its inhabitants. Through ...","PeriodicalId":37617,"journal":{"name":"Catalan Review","volume":"28 1","pages":"57-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/CATR.28.1.57","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70396811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Catalan ReviewPub Date : 2014-01-01DOI: 10.3828/catr.28.1.107
Lídia Carol-Geronès
{"title":"Dracula, the Vampire in Catalonia: Between Literature and Cinema through Pere Gimferrer","authors":"Lídia Carol-Geronès","doi":"10.3828/catr.28.1.107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/catr.28.1.107","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyzes the figure of the vampire as it emerges in both Catalan literature and cinema. More specifically, I consider the use of this dark figure in the works of one of the most important contemporary Catalan writers, the Barcelonan poet Pere Gimferrer. The first part of the essay underlines the relationships that Pere Gimferrer established with other writers, most notably Joan Perucho, and I show that a specific atmosphere is created to evoke the uncanny shadow of the dark count. In the second part, which considers the work of select Catalan filmmakers, I argue that auteurs like Pere Portabella and Albert Serra re-invent and deconstruct the myth of the vampire, inspired, as suggested by Gimferrer, not only by literature but even more so by horror movies.","PeriodicalId":37617,"journal":{"name":"Catalan Review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/catr.28.1.107","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70395962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}