Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations xi
4. Preface: Uncovering the Potential of Banality xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 Defying or Defining the Everyday: Poetics of Everyday Life 28
7. 2 Singing the Everyday, Signing or Signalling the World: On Catalogic Poems 50
8. 3 Autopsies of Everyday Life 72
9. 4 Vicent Andrés Estellés’s Trencadís, or Attention to the Infra-ordinary 94
10. 5 Churches and Trams 125
11. 6 Thresholds in Barcelona’s Metro 153
12. 7 Forms of Thanatourism: José Pla and Josep M. Espinàs 189
13. 8 Beggars Can’t Be Choosers: From Autarky to Globalized Gastronomy in Spain 219
14. 9 Food and the Everyday in Spain: Immigration and Culinary Renovation 250
15. Notes 271
16. References 283
17. Index 303