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 ix
... dead , incapable of arousing vital currents . " The dictum might already suggest the subject of Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagina- tion ( Gli oggetti desueti nelle immagini della letteratura ) , and this Sicily might stand for ...
... dead , incapable of arousing vital currents . " The dictum might already suggest the subject of Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagina- tion ( Gli oggetti desueti nelle immagini della letteratura ) , and this Sicily might stand for ...
Pagina xi
... dead , and discarded objects proliferate and increase geo- metrically in Western literature and take on new ranges of meaning . For from that moment on , Orlando argues , the functional became the dominant value of Western culture and ...
... dead , and discarded objects proliferate and increase geo- metrically in Western literature and take on new ranges of meaning . For from that moment on , Orlando argues , the functional became the dominant value of Western culture and ...
Pagina 9
... dead human or nonhuman bodies that are technically necessary for calling up the incorporeal whole that is called a ghost. But as long as magic were willing to be content with chopped-off parts of living bodies, we would stay on the ...
... dead human or nonhuman bodies that are technically necessary for calling up the incorporeal whole that is called a ghost. But as long as magic were willing to be content with chopped-off parts of living bodies, we would stay on the ...
Pagina 17
... collec- tion The Sandalwood Chest ( Le Coffret de santal ) : Knick - knacks of uncertain use , Dead flowers upon almahs ' breasts , Hair , gifts from delighted virgins , Locks quickly torn 17 First, Confused Examples.
... collec- tion The Sandalwood Chest ( Le Coffret de santal ) : Knick - knacks of uncertain use , Dead flowers upon almahs ' breasts , Hair , gifts from delighted virgins , Locks quickly torn 17 First, Confused Examples.
Pagina 18
... dead flowers " of the second line - in exchange for his earnings , seems to mean that the sale of his literature will make lived experi- ences possible for him . Perhaps these experiences will not be convertible into new literature ...
... dead flowers " of the second line - in exchange for his earnings , seems to mean that the sale of his literature will make lived experi- ences possible for him . Perhaps these experiences will not be convertible into new literature ...
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
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