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. |
Din interiorul cărții
Rezultatele 1 - 5 din 49
Pagina 2
... collection , although it continued to recur with considerable frequency in the passages that I began to select ... collected . Rather , posing the question about why the thematic constants I was dealing with were often articulated in ...
... collection , although it continued to recur with considerable frequency in the passages that I began to select ... collected . Rather , posing the question about why the thematic constants I was dealing with were often articulated in ...
Pagina 18
... collection , and this is why container and contents are being offered for sale . The fact that the poet intends to buy himself " fresh roses " - a conclusive counterpart to the " dead flowers " of the second line - in exchange for his ...
... collection , and this is why container and contents are being offered for sale . The fact that the poet intends to buy himself " fresh roses " - a conclusive counterpart to the " dead flowers " of the second line - in exchange for his ...
Pagina 20
... collection Eulogy of Shadow ( Elogio de la sombra ) , dated 1969 : The cane , the coins , the key - chain , The docile lock , the late notes That won't be read by the few days Left to me , the papers and the chessboard , A book and in ...
... collection Eulogy of Shadow ( Elogio de la sombra ) , dated 1969 : The cane , the coins , the key - chain , The docile lock , the late notes That won't be read by the few days Left to me , the papers and the chessboard , A book and in ...
Pagina 25
... collection of reworked popular poetry , The Youth's Magic Horn ( Des Knaben Wunderhorn ) , pub- lished by him ... collected the most singular stock of old stuff of every sort ; thus , not even the smallest household objects matched or ...
... collection of reworked popular poetry , The Youth's Magic Horn ( Des Knaben Wunderhorn ) , pub- lished by him ... collected the most singular stock of old stuff of every sort ; thus , not even the smallest household objects matched or ...
Pagina 37
... collection entitled Chastisements ( Châtiments ) . The are so many pieces of invective against usurpation , abuse of power , and the corruption of a statesman and his reactionary regime - of Napoleon III and the Second Empire . But so ...
... collection entitled Chastisements ( Châtiments ) . The are so many pieces of invective against usurpation , abuse of power , and the corruption of a statesman and his reactionary regime - of Napoleon III and the Second Empire . But so ...
Cuprins
1 | |
17 | |
47 | |
67 | |
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 |
Alte ediții - Afișează-le pe toate
Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination: Ruins, Relics, Rarities ... Francesco Orlando Previzualizare limitată - 2008 |
Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination: Ruins, Relics, Rarities ... Francesco Orlando Nu există previzualizare disponibilă - 2006 |
Termeni și expresii frecvente
adjectives already ambivalence ancien régime ancient antifunctional antiquity appears Balzac Baroque become Bibliothèque castle catachresis century chap chapter character Chateaubriand Comédie humaine contamination culture dead death desolate-disconnected Everyman's Library examples fact functional furniture genre Gothic novel historical turning point human hyperbole Ibid imagery images Jerusalem Delivered kitsch La Comédie humaine la Pléiade Les Rougon-Macquart less lines literary literature magic memory metaphor metonymy Milan modern Mondadori narrative narrator nature negative category night nonfunctional corporality novel objects Oblomov Oeuvres complètes opposition Orlando outdoing Oxford University Press palace Paris passage past Pléiade poem poetic precious-potential present pretentious-fictitious protagonist quoted refer relationship remains reminiscent-affective repressed ruins seems semantic tree semipositive category sense sinister-terrifying solemn-admonitory space sterile-noxious story supernatural symbolic tercet thematic constants theme things threadbare-grotesque tion tradition trans treasure Turin venerable-regressive walls words worn-realistic