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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... objects — and on a monumental scale - seemed to have attracted scholars ' specific attention . I am referring , of course , to the theme of ruins , Roman and otherwise : a theme that is not at all limited by the verbal form of the list ...
... objects — and on a monumental scale - seemed to have attracted scholars ' specific attention . I am referring , of course , to the theme of ruins , Roman and otherwise : a theme that is not at all limited by the verbal form of the list ...
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... object of refuse par excellence; culture consecrates it as something to be venerated and ideally preserved forever, as an object of worship par excellence. No halfway measures here, between an extreme physical non-value (that of primary ...
... object of refuse par excellence; culture consecrates it as something to be venerated and ideally preserved forever, as an object of worship par excellence. No halfway measures here, between an extreme physical non-value (that of primary ...
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... objects as objects for buying and selling and the connotations of the nonfunc- tional - not only because of the time lapse that is part of the very definition of antique items , but just as much thanks to an unpredictable game of ...
... objects as objects for buying and selling and the connotations of the nonfunc- tional - not only because of the time lapse that is part of the very definition of antique items , but just as much thanks to an unpredictable game of ...
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... objects of which surrealism is so enamored . But , on 20 July , the question of resuming that pastime hardly existed , because the sea , which had not receded as far , had manifestly not left behind anything that might have been a bit ...
... objects of which surrealism is so enamored . But , on 20 July , the question of resuming that pastime hardly existed , because the sea , which had not receded as far , had manifestly not left behind anything that might have been a bit ...
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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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