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 trajectory of Orlando's work : from the classicism of Racine's Phèdre and Molière's Misanthrope to the Enlightenment , from the Enlightenment to Romanticism and to the full ascendancy of the bourgeoisie . For while this book ...
... historical trajectory of Orlando's work : from the classicism of Racine's Phèdre and Molière's Misanthrope to the Enlightenment , from the Enlightenment to Romanticism and to the full ascendancy of the bourgeoisie . For while this book ...
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... historical variability of the ideals of functionality . But in any case a list verbally piles objects on top of each other , next to each other , in immediate alternation with each other , thereby making of all the other objects the ...
... historical variability of the ideals of functionality . But in any case a list verbally piles objects on top of each other , next to each other , in immediate alternation with each other , thereby making of all the other objects the ...
Pagina 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.
... 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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... historical point of view . And this would be the case even if the final result could not but be an essay based on selected mate- rials ( which , indeed , is what this book is ) , rather than a study based on exhaus- tive materials.2 ...
... historical point of view . And this would be the case even if the final result could not but be an essay based on selected mate- rials ( which , indeed , is what this book is ) , rather than a study based on exhaus- tive materials.2 ...
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... historical past, and that not even the relative fortuity of the selected texts can avoid giving pride of place, in ... historic past and the texts, cannot avoid functioning as testimonies to what they are mediating; more- over, my ...
... historical past, and that not even the relative fortuity of the selected texts can avoid giving pride of place, in ... historic past and the texts, cannot avoid functioning as testimonies to what they are mediating; more- over, my ...
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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 |
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