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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... called masterpieces are the most profound testimonies of the historical past, and that not even the relative fortuity of the selected texts can avoid giving pride of place, in the long run, to these so-called masterpieces. Nor am I ...
... called masterpieces are the most profound testimonies of the historical past, and that not even the relative fortuity of the selected texts can avoid giving pride of place, in the long run, to these so-called masterpieces. Nor am I ...
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... called a ghost. But as long as magic were willing to be content with chopped-off parts of living bodies, we would stay on the margins of the abstract exemplification suitable for our purposes; on the other hand, I won't waste words on ...
... called a ghost. But as long as magic were willing to be content with chopped-off parts of living bodies, we would stay on the margins of the abstract exemplification suitable for our purposes; on the other hand, I won't waste words on ...
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... called into question is an ambivalence intrinsic to the relationship - for human beings - between things and time . Time uses up and destroys things , breaks them and reduces them to uselessness , renders them unfashionable and makes ...
... called into question is an ambivalence intrinsic to the relationship - for human beings - between things and time . Time uses up and destroys things , breaks them and reduces them to uselessness , renders them unfashionable and makes ...
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... called feces : the one between pleasure and disgust , the other between gift and refuse . In the former , nature and culture are set in opposition to each other , and both reverse with the passage of time . — If we had reached the ...
... called feces : the one between pleasure and disgust , the other between gift and refuse . In the former , nature and culture are set in opposition to each other , and both reverse with the passage of time . — If we had reached the ...
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... called bad taste or , to use a more specialized term , kitsch . A problem that at first would appear unrelated to an inquiry concerned with the literary images of nonfunctional things : and not for its extraliterary quality , but ...
... called bad taste or , to use a more specialized term , kitsch . A problem that at first would appear unrelated to an inquiry concerned with the literary images of nonfunctional things : and not for its extraliterary quality , but ...
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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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