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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... magic, necromantic relics are those parts of dead human or nonhuman bodies that are technically necessary for calling up the incorporeal whole that is called a ghost. But as long as magic were willing to be content with chopped-off ...
... magic, necromantic relics are those parts of dead human or nonhuman bodies that are technically necessary for calling up the incorporeal whole that is called a ghost. But as long as magic were willing to be content with chopped-off ...
Pagina 25
... Magic Horn ( Des Knaben Wunderhorn ) , pub- lished by him together with Brentano ; but his own fame , too , was renewed in the twentieth century thanks to the surrealists ( who , through their praise or attacks , exercised in the area ...
... Magic Horn ( Des Knaben Wunderhorn ) , pub- lished by him together with Brentano ; but his own fame , too , was renewed in the twentieth century thanks to the surrealists ( who , through their praise or attacks , exercised in the area ...
Pagina 40
... magic in every piece of debris that at least had the merit of being unexpected . The list that we read is the first of our series to have been actively composed , so to speak ; that is , it was made by the story's charac- ters , who ...
... magic in every piece of debris that at least had the merit of being unexpected . The list that we read is the first of our series to have been actively composed , so to speak ; that is , it was made by the story's charac- ters , who ...
Pagina 41
... magic : The table was covered with strange things that he could barely make out . They seemed to be arranged in a certain bizarre order , and he thought he could distinguish pieces of fruit , some bones , and shreds of bloody cloth . A ...
... magic : The table was covered with strange things that he could barely make out . They seemed to be arranged in a certain bizarre order , and he thought he could distinguish pieces of fruit , some bones , and shreds of bloody cloth . A ...
Pagina 42
... a long period of fertility . What the story holds in common with science fiction is the futuristic justification of the incredible , the rational up- dating of magic ; what it holds in common with 42 First , Confused Examples II.13.
... a long period of fertility . What the story holds in common with science fiction is the futuristic justification of the incredible , the rational up- dating of magic ; what it holds in common with 42 First , Confused Examples II.13.
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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