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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... beginnings in 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 ...
... beginnings in 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 ...
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... beginning to take shape and find confirmation in the growing number of passages being compared , it suggested the exact opposite of a demonstration of the integrated , intact relationship of functionality . Some of the results of ...
... beginning to take shape and find confirmation in the growing number of passages being compared , it suggested the exact opposite of a demonstration of the integrated , intact relationship of functionality . Some of the results of ...
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... beginning of the twen- tieth century are only too well known today . As feces are the 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 ...
... beginning of the twen- tieth century are only too well known today . As feces are the 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 ...
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... beginnings and its compulsive development . And in this tale , more objects of a kind that concerns us will be listed because Plyushkin habitually gathers and piles them up , 12 with a fetishism or collector's mania which is caricatured ...
... beginnings and its compulsive development . And in this tale , more objects of a kind that concerns us will be listed because Plyushkin habitually gathers and piles them up , 12 with a fetishism or collector's mania which is caricatured ...
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... beginning of the chapter is thus all the more hyper- bolic ; this precedes the hypothesis of collapse and burial beneath wild plants , which remains in the future conditional but raises the discourse to a level of solemnity reminiscent ...
... beginning of the chapter is thus all the more hyper- bolic ; this precedes the hypothesis of collapse and burial beneath wild plants , which remains in the future conditional but raises the discourse to a level of solemnity reminiscent ...
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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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