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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... , Relics, Rarities, Rubbish, Uninhabited Places, and Hidden Treasures Francesco Orlando. Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination FRANCESCO ORLANDO Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination RUINS, RELICS, Front Cover.
... , Relics, Rarities, Rubbish, Uninhabited Places, and Hidden Treasures Francesco Orlando. Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination FRANCESCO ORLANDO Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination RUINS, RELICS, Front Cover.
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... Literary Imagination RUINS, RELICS, RARITIES, RUBBISH, UNINHABITED PLACES, AND HIDDEN TREASURES Translated from the Italian by Gabriel Pihas and Daniel Seidel, with the collaboration of Alessandra Grego Foreword by David Quint Yale ...
... Literary Imagination RUINS, RELICS, RARITIES, RUBBISH, UNINHABITED PLACES, AND HIDDEN TREASURES Translated from the Italian by Gabriel Pihas and Daniel Seidel, with the collaboration of Alessandra Grego Foreword by David Quint Yale ...
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... literary disciple in Palermo of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , who offered him informal courses on English and French writers . To Lampedusa's dicta- tion , Orlando produced the typescript of the bulk of Il Gattopardo , and was thus ...
... literary disciple in Palermo of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , who offered him informal courses on English and French writers . To Lampedusa's dicta- tion , Orlando produced the typescript of the bulk of Il Gattopardo , and was thus ...
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... literary history recalls such masters as Erich Auerbach and Ernst Robert Curtius . As the culmination of his critical studies , Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination represents both sides of Orlando's achievement . In his earlier ...
... literary history recalls such masters as Erich Auerbach and Ernst Robert Curtius . As the culmination of his critical studies , Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination represents both sides of Orlando's achievement . In his earlier ...
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... Literary Imagination is one of a kind: already a classic in the field of comparative literature, its examples and case studies, analyzed with rare critical intelligence and subtlety, range across nearly every European language and literary ...
... Literary Imagination is one of a kind: already a classic in the field of comparative literature, its examples and case studies, analyzed with rare critical intelligence and subtlety, range across nearly every European language and literary ...
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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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