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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... later pub- lished text . Who in the world could have sacrificed a more formidable mass of imaginary objects , in a more deadly orgy of dehistoricizations and designifica- tions , than the one presented by the innumerable derelict things ...
... later pub- lished text . Who in the world could have sacrificed a more formidable mass of imaginary objects , in a more deadly orgy of dehistoricizations and designifica- tions , than the one presented by the innumerable derelict things ...
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... later. Further- more, I shall use intentionally conventional examples, one by one, as if they were so many illustrations codified by the collective imagination before or after having been codified by literature. The series will perhaps ...
... later. Further- more, I shall use intentionally conventional examples, one by one, as if they were so many illustrations codified by the collective imagination before or after having been codified by literature. The series will perhaps ...
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... later—it is now time to turn to the great realistic novels of the nineteenth century, and we will begin with their most mature phase. I have chosen a passage from A Simple Heart (Un Coeur simple) by Gustave Flaubert (1821–80), published ...
... later—it is now time to turn to the great realistic novels of the nineteenth century, and we will begin with their most mature phase. I have chosen a passage from A Simple Heart (Un Coeur simple) by Gustave Flaubert (1821–80), published ...
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... of silver and chinaware show it here , and he is far from being the only miserly character in mainstream nineteenth - century realistic fiction . We shall return later to the reasons behind the recurrence 30 First , Confused Examples II.8.
... of silver and chinaware show it here , and he is far from being the only miserly character in mainstream nineteenth - century realistic fiction . We shall return later to the reasons behind the recurrence 30 First , Confused Examples II.8.
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... later to the reasons behind the recurrence of this type of character . For now , let us rather propose three connected observations , with respect to realistic fiction . First : the clarity and indeed the verisimilitude of the ...
... later to the reasons behind the recurrence of this type of character . For now , let us rather propose three connected observations , with respect to realistic fiction . First : the clarity and indeed the verisimilitude of the ...
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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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