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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... novel . He has written a moving , two - part memoir of this formative , if also difficult relationship , as well as an indispens- able critical study of Lampedusa's masterpiece : Ricordo di Lampedusa seguito da Da distanze diverse ...
... novel . He has written a moving , two - part memoir of this formative , if also difficult relationship , as well as an indispens- able critical study of Lampedusa's masterpiece : Ricordo di Lampedusa seguito da Da distanze diverse ...
Pagina 29
... novel Dead Souls the only part he was to complete . The title has two mean- ings : the moral - metaphorical one alludes to the aridity and greed of Chichi- kov , the protagonist ; the literal one refers to his bureaucratically ...
... novel Dead Souls the only part he was to complete . The title has two mean- ings : the moral - metaphorical one alludes to the aridity and greed of Chichi- kov , the protagonist ; the literal one refers to his bureaucratically ...
Pagina 34
... novel by Virginia Woolf ( 1882-1941 ) To the Lighthouse , a spectral , nocturnal visitation of an entirely different sort may run through the rooms of a rundown middle - class vacation home . The house is on one of the Hebrides Islands ...
... novel by Virginia Woolf ( 1882-1941 ) To the Lighthouse , a spectral , nocturnal visitation of an entirely different sort may run through the rooms of a rundown middle - class vacation home . The house is on one of the Hebrides Islands ...
Pagina 38
... novel Les Misérables , but the ancient , imperial Rome of the poem is also shown as a modern - style capital of immense proportions . The sewer appears as a sort of equally immense reverse image of it or backdrop to it , and acts as a ...
... novel Les Misérables , but the ancient , imperial Rome of the poem is also shown as a modern - style capital of immense proportions . The sewer appears as a sort of equally immense reverse image of it or backdrop to it , and acts as a ...
Pagina 81
... novel ( or as in Gozzano's poem : II , 4 ) , but through an approximation that makes the need for it still more significant : the sofa had been very pretty " around 1809. " The erotic and economic rivalry among characters like Hulot and ...
... novel ( or as in Gozzano's poem : II , 4 ) , but through an approximation that makes the need for it still more significant : the sofa had been very pretty " around 1809. " The erotic and economic rivalry among characters like Hulot and ...
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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