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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... become an end in themselves, and they over- come repression through communication. It was starting from these transgres- sions of such a rational imperative in logical and linguistic forms (and only secondarily starting from ...
... become an end in themselves, and they over- come repression through communication. It was starting from these transgres- sions of such a rational imperative in logical and linguistic forms (and only secondarily starting from ...
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... become deconsecrated as a result of revolutionary devastation, nothing will serve the cause of religious and, for that matter, political restoration so eloquently as the sight and scandal of the church's profanation. But this does not ...
... become deconsecrated as a result of revolutionary devastation, nothing will serve the cause of religious and, for that matter, political restoration so eloquently as the sight and scandal of the church's profanation. But this does not ...
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... become cherished by force of habit and ease of han- dling , endows them with tenderness as memories and with authority as models , marks them with the virtue of rarity and the prestige of age . The scale that weighs a positive quality ...
... become cherished by force of habit and ease of han- dling , endows them with tenderness as memories and with authority as models , marks them with the virtue of rarity and the prestige of age . The scale that weighs a positive quality ...
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... become equally shameful , repugnant , and stink- ing as its upbringing proceeds . Here too the polarization becomes extreme , but , contrary to the case of the cadaver , there is a split - once repression has taken place — between ...
... become equally shameful , repugnant , and stink- ing as its upbringing proceeds . Here too the polarization becomes extreme , but , contrary to the case of the cadaver , there is a split - once repression has taken place — between ...
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... become the perfor- mance principle , which is our functional imperative . When we read , in Engels , that " everything must justify its existence before the tribunal of reason or give up existence , " that " every old traditional notion ...
... become the perfor- mance principle , which is our functional imperative . When we read , in Engels , that " everything must justify its existence before the tribunal of reason or give up existence , " that " every old traditional notion ...
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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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