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Author: Joan Resina
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.50cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.640kg
ISBN: 9781487501846
ISBN 10: 1487501846
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 02 May 2017
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
"""Josep Pla is famed for the depth and fluidity of his prose. Layered, nuanced and with an enticing elegance of expression, his discourse lures the reader away from the profundity of the speculation towards the elegance of the style. This 'deceivingly simple' author is notoriously slippery. There are many Plas hiding behind the richness of the journalistic prose; and rarely has this polyfacetic dimension been so perceptively exposed as by Resina's penetrating and perceptive monograph. The elusive obliqueness of this transnational itinerant, whose repertoire covers the entire intellectual, academic and vital spectrum, requires an academic sleuth of the sensitivity of fellow-Catalan Resina to elucidate the enormity of the ethical and ideological machinations which rumble in the depths of Pla's chronicle. This is a brilliant study on a brilliantly astute writer.""--Domenic Keown, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Cambridge ""Josep Pla is an excellent piece of scholarship. Joan Ramon Resina provides an effective introduction of Josep Pla's literary oeuvre to English-speaking audiences while at the same time offering a brilliant re-examination of the significance and meaning of his work.""--Edgar Illas, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Indiana University"
Josep Pla is an excellent piece of scholarship. Joan Ramon Resina provides an effective introduction of Josep Pla's literary oeuvre to English-speaking audiences while at the same time offering a brilliant re-examination of the significance and meaning of his work. - Edgar Illas, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Indiana University Josep Pla is famed for the depth and fluidity of his prose. Layered, nuanced and with an enticing elegance of expression, his discourse lures the reader away from the profundity of the speculation towards the elegance of the style. This 'deceivingly simple' author is notoriously slippery. There are many Plas hiding behind the richness of the journalistic prose; and rarely has this polyfacetic dimension been so perceptively exposed as by Resina's penetrating and perceptive monograph. The elusive obliqueness of this transnational itinerant, whose repertoire covers the entire intellectual, academic and vital spectrum, requires an academic sleuth of the sensitivity of fellow-Catalan Resina to elucidate the enormity of the ethical and ideological machinations which rumble in the depths of Pla's chronicle. This is a brilliant study on a brilliantly astute writer. - Domenic Keown, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Cambridge
Author Information
Joan Ramon Resina is a professor in the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures as well as the Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford University.
