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 13
... comparison the functional imperative of West- ern rationality — with its coercive effects on the physical world — is called into question . But the comparison may also be extended to a form of imagination that has already been ...
... comparison the functional imperative of West- ern rationality — with its coercive effects on the physical world — is called into question . But the comparison may also be extended to a form of imagination that has already been ...
Pagina 14
... comparison , with its significantly modern terms of reference , helps us to set the subject of our inquiry in a large - scale historical perspective . Of course , it helps us to do so starting with what is most typical : negative or ...
... comparison , with its significantly modern terms of reference , helps us to set the subject of our inquiry in a large - scale historical perspective . Of course , it helps us to do so starting with what is most typical : negative or ...
Pagina 16
... comparison . He finds , on repeated relationships , a link ( achieved thanks to an intermediate element , the removal of olfactory stimuli ) between disgust for the feces that were originally esteemed , and denial of divinities that ...
... comparison . He finds , on repeated relationships , a link ( achieved thanks to an intermediate element , the removal of olfactory stimuli ) between disgust for the feces that were originally esteemed , and denial of divinities that ...
Pagina 31
... comparisons establishes a slightly joking tone , which is harmless to verisimilitude only if the dose is minimal , but ... comparison , exaggeration , or amusement : " mother - of - pearl mosaic , which in places had fallen out and left ...
... comparisons establishes a slightly joking tone , which is harmless to verisimilitude only if the dose is minimal , but ... comparison , exaggeration , or amusement : " mother - of - pearl mosaic , which in places had fallen out and left ...
Pagina 49
... comparison leads to the recognition of constants and variants , to deny any importance to the former in order to confer it all on the latter meant that the very need to understand and acquire knowledge through com- parison , rather than ...
... comparison leads to the recognition of constants and variants , to deny any importance to the former in order to confer it all on the latter meant that the very need to understand and acquire knowledge through com- parison , rather than ...
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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