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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... hand , with respect to theme , only one particular kind of such objects — and on a monumental scale - seemed to have attracted scholars ' specific attention . I am referring , of course , to the theme of ruins , Roman and otherwise : a ...
... hand , with respect to theme , only one particular kind of such objects — and on a monumental scale - seemed to have attracted scholars ' specific attention . I am referring , of course , to the theme of ruins , Roman and otherwise : a ...
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... hand , they would have too easily encouraged the writing of an essay proceeding with impunity under the sign of metahistory rather than of history , of nonsense rather than meaning ; possibly even , as many would have done gladly ...
... hand , they would have too easily encouraged the writing of an essay proceeding with impunity under the sign of metahistory rather than of history , of nonsense rather than meaning ; possibly even , as many would have done gladly ...
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... hand, the need to devalue such a form of nobility could not be renounced, in order to affirm effectively the notion of individual merit; on the other, the temptation to usurp it through the expedient of belated, retrospective, or ...
... hand, the need to devalue such a form of nobility could not be renounced, in order to affirm effectively the notion of individual merit; on the other, the temptation to usurp it through the expedient of belated, retrospective, or ...
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... hand , the defunctionalizing 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 ...
... hand , the defunctionalizing 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 ...
Pagina 29
... hand , 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 ...
... hand , 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 ...
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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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