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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... , with the literature of the last two centuries . Nevertheless , it would not be suitable for me to close this introduction without having first tried to forestall the reader's legitimate What This Book Is About I.4 7.
... , with the literature of the last two centuries . Nevertheless , it would not be suitable for me to close this introduction without having first tried to forestall the reader's legitimate What This Book Is About I.4 7.
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... close on a generation no one had appeared to drive away these random visitors or to repair their ravages . 31 The building appears to be the only point at which the squalid surrounding area looks out upon an important , active , and ...
... close on a generation no one had appeared to drive away these random visitors or to repair their ravages . 31 The building appears to be the only point at which the squalid surrounding area looks out upon an important , active , and ...
Pagina 45
... close to recognizing , in the sensation or emotion of the uncanny , the unrecognizable return of things that were “ famil- iar , ” as Freud was to do much later . In Poe's sentence , their familiarity is only apparently in contrast to ...
... close to recognizing , in the sensation or emotion of the uncanny , the unrecognizable return of things that were “ famil- iar , ” as Freud was to do much later . In Poe's sentence , their familiarity is only apparently in contrast to ...
Pagina 46
... close our survey with this example , in which , through things , the supernatural adds historic cultural obsolescence to natural physical decay , but prolongs both the use of manmade articles and the life of material things in its ...
... close our survey with this example , in which , through things , the supernatural adds historic cultural obsolescence to natural physical decay , but prolongs both the use of manmade articles and the life of material things in its ...
Pagina 65
... close this methodological chapter with them ; but I preceded the enun- ciation of them with the parenthetical images of . It is a premise that will always be implied , from now on , since it remains beyond doubt that we are speaking ...
... close this methodological chapter with them ; but I preceded the enun- ciation of them with the parenthetical images of . It is a premise that will always be implied , from now on , since it remains beyond doubt that we are speaking ...
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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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