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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... ancient Near East , and of nearly every genre imaginable ( drama , epic , essay , short story , letter , memoir ) , its center is the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and their characteristic forms : the lyric and , above all , the ...
... ancient Near East , and of nearly every genre imaginable ( drama , epic , essay , short story , letter , memoir ) , its center is the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and their characteristic forms : the lyric and , above all , the ...
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... ancient field, without the kindness of Giovanni Mazzini. In the very last revision, and in the correction of the proofs, Francesco Ghelli made available to me his exceptional talents as well as his implacable meticulousness. Note on the ...
... ancient field, without the kindness of Giovanni Mazzini. In the very last revision, and in the correction of the proofs, Francesco Ghelli made available to me his exceptional talents as well as his implacable meticulousness. Note on the ...
Pagina 11
... ancient issues in aesthetics : the redemption through artistic euphoria of the painful or the ugly . To put the matter in more modern terms , let us again borrow from Freud a concept that is irreplaceable both for its logical ...
... ancient issues in aesthetics : the redemption through artistic euphoria of the painful or the ugly . To put the matter in more modern terms , let us again borrow from Freud a concept that is irreplaceable both for its logical ...
Pagina 14
... ancient , traditional conceptions that had previously been rejected , thus turning itself into the site of an irrational return of the repressed . And Engels ' passage is once again a metaphorical point of departure - albeit a much more ...
... ancient , traditional conceptions that had previously been rejected , thus turning itself into the site of an irrational return of the repressed . And Engels ' passage is once again a metaphorical point of departure - albeit a much more ...
Pagina 29
... ancient book in a leather binding with red edges , a completely dried - up lemon no bigger than a hazelnut , the broken - off arm of an armchair , a glass with some sort of liquid and three flies in it , covered by a letter , a little ...
... ancient book in a leather binding with red edges , a completely dried - up lemon no bigger than a hazelnut , the broken - off arm of an armchair , a glass with some sort of liquid and three flies in it , covered by a letter , a little ...
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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Termeni și expresii frecvente
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