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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... century attacked metaphor itself as a regressive mental activity , characteristic of an immature , childish stage of ... centuries is gone . " Romanticism , Orlando observes , would soon enough reclaim this cultural territory and the ...
... century attacked metaphor itself as a regressive mental activity , characteristic of an immature , childish stage of ... centuries is gone . " Romanticism , Orlando observes , would soon enough reclaim this cultural territory and the ...
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... centuries . It coincides with the period in which industrial revolution in England and political revolution in France were forcing upon the world well- matured models of secular rationalization that had begun two centuries earlier and ...
... centuries . It coincides with the period in which industrial revolution in England and political revolution in France were forcing upon the world well- matured models of secular rationalization that had begun two centuries earlier and ...
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... century , along with Montgolfier's balloon and Mesmer's magnetism.15 The facts that the armchair is " ancient " and " soiled , " or that the upholstery on the other armchairs is “ faded , ” or that the gilt coating on the sofas is ...
... century , along with Montgolfier's balloon and Mesmer's magnetism.15 The facts that the armchair is " ancient " and " soiled , " or that the upholstery on the other armchairs is “ faded , ” or that the gilt coating on the sofas is ...
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... century - specifically , to 1853 , when the exiled Victor Hugo ( 1802-85 ) pub- lished the singular collection entitled Chastisements ( Châtiments ) . The are so many pieces of invective against usurpation , abuse of power , and the ...
... century - specifically , to 1853 , when the exiled Victor Hugo ( 1802-85 ) pub- lished the singular collection entitled Chastisements ( Châtiments ) . The are so many pieces of invective against usurpation , abuse of power , and the ...
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... century's achievements: historicism, biographism, and sociologism, all Romantic at first and then later positivist. On the other hand, in French culture, in which nineteenth-century methods persisted unperturbed in the accepted doctrine ...
... century's achievements: historicism, biographism, and sociologism, all Romantic at first and then later positivist. On the other hand, in French culture, in which nineteenth-century methods persisted unperturbed in the accepted doctrine ...
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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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