Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination: Ruins, Relics, Rarities, Rubbish, Uninhabited Places, and Hidden TreasuresYale University Press, 1 oct. 2008 - 500 pagini Translated here into English for the first time is a monumental work of literary history and criticism comparable in scope and achievement to Eric Auerbach’s Mimesis. Italian critic Francesco Orlando explores Western literature’s obsession with outmoded and nonfunctional objects (ruins, obsolete machinery, broken things, trash, etc.). Combining the insights of psychoanalysis and literary-political history, Orlando traces this obsession to a turning point in history, at the end of eighteenth-century industrialization, when the functional becomes the dominant value of Western culture. Roaming through every genre and much of the history of Western literature, the author identifies distinct categories into which obsolete images can be classified and provides myriad examples. The function of literature, he concludes, is to remind us of what we have lost and what we are losing as we rush toward the future. |
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... first sight. And not only at first sight: perhaps even the reader who has reached the end of this book will find it hard to summarize in a few words, just as the author finds it hard at the outset. I am persuaded I have ascertained—at ...
... first sight. And not only at first sight: perhaps even the reader who has reached the end of this book will find it hard to summarize in a few words, just as the author finds it hard at the outset. I am persuaded I have ascertained—at ...
Pagina 6
... first glance, that images of merely physical things are related to imaginary moral or rational transgressions. But carrying out the opposite experiment would suffice to confirm the relationship—that is, to attribute to things some ...
... first glance, that images of merely physical things are related to imaginary moral or rational transgressions. But carrying out the opposite experiment would suffice to confirm the relationship—that is, to attribute to things some ...
Pagina 7
... first reason is formal : the original Freudian model for repression and return of the repressed is a logical or antilogical model that a priori lacks definite contents . I have had to claim repeatedly , in defending my previous books ...
... first reason is formal : the original Freudian model for repression and return of the repressed is a logical or antilogical model that a priori lacks definite contents . I have had to claim repeatedly , in defending my previous books ...
Pagina 10
... first, the denial of a sort of functionality that we understand to be an attribute of some specific imaginary contents of the texts; second, the denial of the literary functionality of the texts, understood here as their formal qual ...
... first, the denial of a sort of functionality that we understand to be an attribute of some specific imaginary contents of the texts; second, the denial of the literary functionality of the texts, understood here as their formal qual ...
Pagina 13
... first thing pro- duced by one's own body , for a very small child they represent a first , symbolic gift to adults — the first occasion for being considered worthy or unworthy , for social exchange or ransom . Initially important ...
... first thing pro- duced by one's own body , for a very small child they represent a first , symbolic gift to adults — the first occasion for being considered worthy or unworthy , for social exchange or ransom . Initially important ...
Cuprins
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Twelve Categories Not to Be Too Sharply Distinguished | 206 |
Some TwentiethCentury Novels | 343 |
Praising and Disparaging the Functional | 375 |
Notes | 407 |
Index of Subjects | 481 |
Index of Names and Texts | 487 |
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