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 27
... covered by a sheet, like an altar, a box made of seashells that Victor had given her; then, a watering-can and a ball, some notebooks, geographical prints, a pair of ankle- boots; and on the nail meant for the mirror, hanging by its ...
... covered by a sheet, like an altar, a box made of seashells that Victor had given her; then, a watering-can and a ball, some notebooks, geographical prints, a pair of ankle- boots; and on the nail meant for the mirror, hanging by its ...
Pagina 29
... covered by a marble paper- weight , gone green , with a little egg on top of it , some ancient book in a leather binding with red edges , a completely dried - up lemon no bigger than a hazelnut , the broken - off arm of an armchair , a ...
... covered by a marble paper- weight , gone green , with a little egg on top of it , some ancient book in a leather binding with red edges , a completely dried - up lemon no bigger than a hazelnut , the broken - off arm of an armchair , a ...
Pagina 32
... covered with Chinese silk . Two portraits , painted in Paris by Mme . Lebrun , hung on the wall . One of them showed a man about forty years old , red - faced and portly , wearing a light green coat with a star ; the other a beautiful ...
... covered with Chinese silk . Two portraits , painted in Paris by Mme . Lebrun , hung on the wall . One of them showed a man about forty years old , red - faced and portly , wearing a light green coat with a star ; the other a beautiful ...
Pagina 41
... covered with strange things that he could barely make out . They seemed to be arranged in a certain bizarre order , and he thought he could distinguish pieces of fruit , some bones , and shreds of bloody cloth . A figurine of a man ...
... covered with strange things that he could barely make out . They seemed to be arranged in a certain bizarre order , and he thought he could distinguish pieces of fruit , some bones , and shreds of bloody cloth . A figurine of a man ...
Pagina 76
... covered with verdigris ; That there were anchovies or rotten sardines One would suppose by the fetid smell of an urn , Worse than the air of a sea hatchery . Nor was a slice of Tolosan cheese missing , Nor a crown of mint blackened in ...
... covered with verdigris ; That there were anchovies or rotten sardines One would suppose by the fetid smell of an urn , Worse than the air of a sea hatchery . Nor was a slice of Tolosan cheese missing , Nor a crown of mint blackened 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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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