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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... historical duration of civilizations . In short , all these issues , and the deterrent effect of their scattered immensity , would have too easily discouraged the carrying out of a study within What This Book Is About I.2 3.
... historical duration of civilizations . In short , all these issues , and the deterrent effect of their scattered immensity , would have too easily discouraged the carrying out of a study within What This Book Is About I.2 3.
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... effect; the rundown interior of a home, regardless of whether its faded upholstery, worm-eaten woodwork, and rusty tools point to lower-class residents or impoverished ones; a birthplace or family home in which one grew up or at least ...
... effect; the rundown interior of a home, regardless of whether its faded upholstery, worm-eaten woodwork, and rusty tools point to lower-class residents or impoverished ones; a birthplace or family home in which one grew up or at least ...
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... effects on the physical world — is called into question . But the comparison may also be extended to a form of imagination that has already been transformed into a language , that is , into literature ( or art ) as an institution . In ...
... effects on the physical world — is called into question . But the comparison may also be extended to a form of imagination that has already been transformed into a language , that is , into literature ( or art ) as an institution . In ...
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... effect that the list of things has on the things themselves , as I said in the first chapter ( I , 1 ) . On the other hand , it derives from what this time , too , is a metaphorical valence , not so much of the objects in themselves as ...
... effect that the list of things has on the things themselves , as I said in the first chapter ( I , 1 ) . On the other hand , it derives from what this time , too , is a metaphorical valence , not so much of the objects in themselves as ...
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... effect might recall the great eighteenth - century tradition of Enlighten- ment irony ( rather than that of Brecht ) , all the more so when - elsewhere in the novel - technical devices or practical conveniences are portrayed as no less ...
... effect might recall the great eighteenth - century tradition of Enlighten- ment irony ( rather than that of Brecht ) , all the more so when - elsewhere in the novel - technical devices or practical conveniences are portrayed as no less ...
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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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