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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Pagina 18
... lines are , of course , a list . One may wonder whether the first one , with its immediate questioning of the ... line . The exclamation about the “ clutter ” — the final synthesis — introduces the tercets and the surprise they contain ...
... lines are , of course , a list . One may wonder whether the first one , with its immediate questioning of the ... line . The exclamation about the “ clutter ” — the final synthesis — introduces the tercets and the surprise they contain ...
Pagina 19
... lines from the second of the four poems entitled Spleen : I've more memories than if I were a thousand years old . A large chest of drawers encumbered with balance sheets , Poems , love letters , lawsuits , and romance scores , With ...
... lines from the second of the four poems entitled Spleen : I've more memories than if I were a thousand years old . A large chest of drawers encumbered with balance sheets , Poems , love letters , lawsuits , and romance scores , With ...
Pagina 21
... line to the gravity of the first person plural that is repeated in the last lines . The mystery of the certainty of transience and death and of the uncertainty of a beyond dictates expressions like “ few days , ” “ unforgettable and ...
... line to the gravity of the first person plural that is repeated in the last lines . The mystery of the certainty of transience and death and of the uncertainty of a beyond dictates expressions like “ few days , ” “ unforgettable and ...
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... lines ; here , too , it forms a nominal sentence in which the things function , so to speak , as their own predicates . Immediately thereafter , the first of the poem's five sec- tions is closed in less than a line , but in the meantime ...
... lines ; here , too , it forms a nominal sentence in which the things function , so to speak , as their own predicates . Immediately thereafter , the first of the poem's five sec- tions is closed in less than a line , but in the meantime ...
Pagina 28
... lines to the objects that she needs for sleeping and washing ; almost all the space is left to an affective reliquary of defunctionalized things , as a result of which the place feels like both a bazaar and a chapel . The pairing is ...
... lines to the objects that she needs for sleeping and washing ; almost all the space is left to an affective reliquary of defunctionalized things , as a result of which the place feels like both a bazaar and a chapel . The pairing is ...
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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