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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... less useless or old or unusual - within that imaginary plane of literature which varied from text to text , and consequently in contrast with the implied and ever varying ideals of usefulness , or newness , or normality . Interest in ...
... less useless or old or unusual - within that imaginary plane of literature which varied from text to text , and consequently in contrast with the implied and ever varying ideals of usefulness , or newness , or normality . Interest in ...
Pagina 5
... less organic documents that can bear witness to past rebellions, infractions, and frustrations. But what must now interest us is how the general scope of a concept like the return of the repressed in litera- ture, and of a correlative ...
... less organic documents that can bear witness to past rebellions, infractions, and frustrations. But what must now interest us is how the general scope of a concept like the return of the repressed in litera- ture, and of a correlative ...
Pagina 6
... less important, readily distin- guishable imperative that can, rather, be defined as rational. Transgressions of this imperative are, above all, logical and linguistic concessions to the appeal of the irrational; they are primitive ...
... less important, readily distin- guishable imperative that can, rather, be defined as rational. Transgressions of this imperative are, above all, logical and linguistic concessions to the appeal of the irrational; they are primitive ...
Pagina 7
... less schematically - simplified them in- stead , and this book's subject may now be described as perhaps too well defined , because schematically so . Just as literature welcomes an immoral return of the repressed , by which a moral ...
... less schematically - simplified them in- stead , and this book's subject may now be described as perhaps too well defined , because schematically so . Just as literature welcomes an immoral return of the repressed , by which a moral ...
Pagina 9
... less with its monetary value, this value will not limit itself to the one it had prior to its disappearance and recovery. It will have earned interest, in a manner of speaking—interest that matured in a greedy imagination, not in a bank ...
... less with its monetary value, this value will not limit itself to the one it had prior to its disappearance and recovery. It will have earned interest, in a manner of speaking—interest that matured in a greedy imagination, not in a bank ...
Cuprins
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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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