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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... death over this inquiry—which is exactly what I have said I do not want to do.) First, for me, no symbolic referent would sufficiently guarantee the unity of the subject in question. That unity will be uninterruptedly demon- strated ...
... death over this inquiry—which is exactly what I have said I do not want to do.) First, for me, no symbolic referent would sufficiently guarantee the unity of the subject in question. That unity will be uninterruptedly demon- strated ...
Pagina 21
... death and of the uncertainty of a beyond dictates expressions like “ few days , ” “ unforgettable and already forgotten , ” “ occidental mirror , ” and " illusory dawn . " But a highly discreet animistic displacement ends by making the ...
... death and of the uncertainty of a beyond dictates expressions like “ few days , ” “ unforgettable and already forgotten , ” “ occidental mirror , ” and " illusory dawn . " But a highly discreet animistic displacement ends by making the ...
Pagina 28
... death agony , in the tale's famous last sentence.10 The compounding of the Bourbon portrait with artificial flowers is a final touch of ironic decontextualization of objects , as was , en passant , the coconut holy water stoup ; this is ...
... death agony , in the tale's famous last sentence.10 The compounding of the Bourbon portrait with artificial flowers is a final touch of ironic decontextualization of objects , as was , en passant , the coconut holy water stoup ; this is ...
Pagina 34
... death . The theme of worn - out furnishings and of the unstoppable deterioration of the house has already been presented in the first part . Mrs. Ramsay , the protagonist , fretted over it , and this was how her innate solicitude for ...
... death . The theme of worn - out furnishings and of the unstoppable deterioration of the house has already been presented in the first part . Mrs. Ramsay , the protagonist , fretted over it , and this was how her innate solicitude for ...
Pagina 67
... death of his daughter Tullia . Here as also in later periods , particularly important letters shared in the formality of a literary genre without thereby losing either their intimate quality or their originality . This was the case with ...
... death of his daughter Tullia . Here as also in later periods , particularly important letters shared in the formality of a literary genre without thereby losing either their intimate quality or their originality . This was the case with ...
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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
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