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 7
... considered achieved . My resorting to my previous Freudian studies - which would have complicated things if I had done it less schematically - simplified them in- stead , and this book's subject may now be described as perhaps too well ...
... considered achieved . My resorting to my previous Freudian studies - which would have complicated things if I had done it less schematically - simplified them in- stead , and this book's subject may now be described as perhaps too well ...
Pagina 13
... considered incredible and scandalous at the beginning of the twen- tieth century are only too well known today . As feces are the first thing pro- duced by one's own body , for a very small child they represent a first , symbolic gift ...
... considered incredible and scandalous at the beginning of the twen- tieth century are only too well known today . As feces are the first thing pro- duced by one's own body , for a very small child they represent a first , symbolic gift ...
Pagina 16
... considered precious . Consequently , excrement and the demon are considered equivalent , as objects of rejection . If literature is for us the site of the immoral return of the re- pressed , and hence could be said to be a space ...
... considered precious . Consequently , excrement and the demon are considered equivalent , as objects of rejection . If literature is for us the site of the immoral return of the re- pressed , and hence could be said to be a space ...
Pagina 20
... considered as originating with Bau- delaire , it is impossible to affirm positively but all the more impossible to deny — in referring to a poet to such an extent nourished by literary culture — the existence of particular echoes of ...
... considered as originating with Bau- delaire , it is impossible to affirm positively but all the more impossible to deny — in referring to a poet to such an extent nourished by literary culture — the existence of particular echoes of ...
Pagina 29
... considered alive until the end of that period . I shall excerpt two fragments , located a few lines apart , from the point at which Chichikov enters the home of Plyushkin , the fifth of the landowners whom he tricks . Plyushkin's ...
... considered alive until the end of that period . I shall excerpt two fragments , located a few lines apart , from the point at which Chichikov enters the home of Plyushkin , the fifth of the landowners whom he tricks . Plyushkin's ...
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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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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 |
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