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 8
... buildings that in their day were constructed to be lived in, and that have been absolutely unin- habitable for centuries or millennia. Their objective defunctionalization may certainly seem secondary and may almost pass unnoticed, given ...
... buildings that in their day were constructed to be lived in, and that have been absolutely unin- habitable for centuries or millennia. Their objective defunctionalization may certainly seem secondary and may almost pass unnoticed, given ...
Pagina 43
... building that is absurd in appear- ance , unusable , rundown , and dirty : Two doors from one corner , on the left hand going east , the line was broken by the entry of a court ; and just at that point , a certain sinister block of building ...
... building that is absurd in appear- ance , unusable , rundown , and dirty : Two doors from one corner , on the left hand going east , the line was broken by the entry of a court ; and just at that point , a certain sinister block of building ...
Pagina 44
... building, into which the bestial Mr. Hyde disappears like a dangerous animal entering its den, anticipates the repulsiveness of evil that will be laid bare in his body. It is a supernatural repulsiveness, and neither the vastness of ...
... building, into which the bestial Mr. Hyde disappears like a dangerous animal entering its den, anticipates the repulsiveness of evil that will be laid bare in his body. It is a supernatural repulsiveness, and neither the vastness of ...
Pagina 89
... buildings in which we live . All at once , solitude and silence reign around us . We alone remain , of an entire nation that no longer exists ; and this is the ABC of the poetics of ruins.28 There follows a description of the painting ...
... buildings in which we live . All at once , solitude and silence reign around us . We alone remain , of an entire nation that no longer exists ; and this is the ABC of the poetics of ruins.28 There follows a description of the painting ...
Pagina 100
... buildings : " The ghosts of the lately dead were near , and swam on the gloomy clouds : and far distant , in the dark silence of Lena , the feeble voices of death were faintly heard . " 54 II Thus it is legitimate to speak of the ...
... buildings : " The ghosts of the lately dead were near , and swam on the gloomy clouds : and far distant , in the dark silence of Lena , the feeble voices of death were faintly heard . " 54 II Thus it is legitimate to speak of the ...
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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