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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Pagina ix
... already suggest the subject of Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagina- tion ( Gli oggetti desueti nelle immagini della letteratura ) , and this Sicily might stand for Literature itself in Orlando's argument : the repository of the out ...
... already suggest the subject of Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagina- tion ( Gli oggetti desueti nelle immagini della letteratura ) , and this Sicily might stand for Literature itself in Orlando's argument : the repository of the out ...
Pagina xii
... already a classic in the field of comparative literature, its examples and case studies, analyzed with rare critical intelligence and subtlety, range across nearly every European language and literary tradition. An incidental pleasure ...
... already a classic in the field of comparative literature, its examples and case studies, analyzed with rare critical intelligence and subtlety, range across nearly every European language and literary tradition. An incidental pleasure ...
Pagina 3
... Already a great number of passages unpremeditatedly encountered had been necessary to awaken in me the impression that the relationship between man and things - functional or otherwise - occupies a far more commanding position in what ...
... Already a great number of passages unpremeditatedly encountered had been necessary to awaken in me the impression that the relationship between man and things - functional or otherwise - occupies a far more commanding position in what ...
Pagina 13
... already been transformed into a language , that is , into literature ( or art ) as an institution . In an exemplary way , it suits literature as the site of an antifunctional return of the repressed . A space that is devoted even to the ...
... already been transformed into a language , that is , into literature ( or art ) as an institution . In an exemplary way , it suits literature as the site of an antifunctional return of the repressed . A space that is devoted even to the ...
Pagina 14
... already indicated . An immense historical leap may in fact be noted in the frequency , development , and number of constants such as these , and it can be dated , roughly , from the late eighteenth and early nine- teenth centuries . It ...
... already indicated . An immense historical leap may in fact be noted in the frequency , development , and number of constants such as these , and it can be dated , roughly , from the late eighteenth and early nine- teenth centuries . It ...
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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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