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Iberian Modalities
Joan Ramon Resina
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Description for Iberian Modalities
Hardcover. Of late the term Iberian Studies has been gaining academic currency, but its semantic scope still fluctuates. This title brings together contributions from leading international scholars who demonstrates the cultural and linguistic complexity of the field by reflecting on the institutional challenges to the practice of Iberian Studies. Editor(s): Resina, Joan Ramon. Series: Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures. Num Pages: 271 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1DSP; 2ADP; 2ADS; DSB; HBJD; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 588.
Of late the term Iberian Studies has been gaining academic currency, but its semantic scope still fluctuates. For some it is a convenient way of combining the official cultures of two states, Portugal and Spain; yet for others the term opens up disciplinary space, altering established routines. A relational approach to Iberian Studies shatters the state’s epistemological frame and complexifies the field through the emergence of lines of inquiry and bodies of knowledge hitherto written off as irrelevant. This timely volume brings together contributions from leading international scholars who demonstrate the cultural and linguistic complexity of the field by reflecting ... Read more
Of late the term Iberian Studies has been gaining academic currency, but its semantic scope still fluctuates. For some it is a convenient way of combining the official cultures of two states, Portugal and Spain; yet for others the term opens up disciplinary space, altering established routines. A relational approach to Iberian Studies shatters the state’s epistemological frame and complexifies the field through the emergence of lines of inquiry and bodies of knowledge hitherto written off as irrelevant. This timely volume brings together contributions from leading international scholars who demonstrate the cultural and linguistic complexity of the field by reflecting ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
Series
Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures
Number of Pages
271
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846318337
SKU
V9781846318337
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About Joan Ramon Resina
Joan Ramon Resina is Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures at Stanford University. His previous books include Barcelona’s Vocation of Modernity: Rise and Decline of an Urban Image. Stanford University Press, 2008.
Reviews for Iberian Modalities
Iberian Modalities is an engaging work and one that no doubt will raise much curiosity and heated debate. A set of important, timely, and well-written considerations about the history and current state of the fields of Hispanic Studies, arguing for an overdue renewal in the direction of Iberian Studies. Sebastiaan Faber