Introduction: the modern rural / Joan Ramon Resina -- Neo-ruralism in the European context: origins and evolution / Joan Nogué -- A semi-Peircean essay on "new realismo" by means of nature / Pere Salabert -- Can suburbia think? / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht -- Sertão, City, Saudade / Marília Librandi Rocha -- The come back of the province: Gionannino Guareschi's petits récits as postwar terza via / Joan Ramon Resina -- The priorat and the landscapting of Catalan terroir / Robert Davidson -- Rural, conceptual: the non-urban as a significant practice in contemporary Catalan culture / Margalida Pons -- Leaving the city on foot: four observations on walking, thinking and writing in contemporary Catalan culture / Xavier Pla -- De mots a terra: linguistic ruin in Francesc Serés's L'arbre sense tronc / William Viestenz -- A Catalan peasant: Dali's renewal of surrealism / Enric Bou -- Geology and literature / Francesc Serés -- That / Perejaume.