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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... constants that I felt I was identifying in the passages matched, leading me to set them side by side despite such diverse and numerous variants. I would say that it was the conjunction of a constant in form—more precisely, in syntax ...
... constants that I felt I was identifying in the passages matched, leading me to set them side by side despite such diverse and numerous variants. I would say that it was the conjunction of a constant in form—more precisely, in syntax ...
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... constants . And yet I did not begin by mentioning this formal constant only to be truthful in recounting the genesis of my inquiry , nor even because of the quantity of lists present in the materials that I collected . Rather , posing ...
... constants . And yet I did not begin by mentioning this formal constant only to be truthful in recounting the genesis of my inquiry , nor even because of the quantity of lists present in the materials that I collected . Rather , posing ...
Pagina 3
... constant , and it is too soon even to be at all precise about the chronological distribution of the texts that I was approaching . But one can already see the absolutely excessive proportions of the thematic material that , through ...
... constant , and it is too soon even to be at all precise about the chronological distribution of the texts that I was approaching . But one can already see the absolutely excessive proportions of the thematic material that , through ...
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... constant . This term provides a clue as to how I , too , had in some way taken advantage of the crisis in historicist orthodoxy . Behind it lies a convic- tion that has little to do with accredited literary sociology , although it ...
... constant . This term provides a clue as to how I , too , had in some way taken advantage of the crisis in historicist orthodoxy . Behind it lies a convic- tion that has little to do with accredited literary sociology , although it ...
Pagina 8
... constant, almost a logical one. This is the ambivalence which appears any time a positive element necessarily presupposes a negative one, or any time a thing may be derived exclusively from its opposite. There are in fact situations in ...
... constant, almost a logical one. This is the ambivalence which appears any time a positive element necessarily presupposes a negative one, or any time a thing may be derived exclusively from its opposite. There are in fact situations in ...
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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Termeni și expresii frecvente
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