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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... once the ambiguity so prized by Anglo - American New Criticism - in the concept of Freudian negation . For Orlando , the real lesson of Freud for liter- ary interpreters lies not in detecting psychoanalytically charged motifs in the ...
... once the ambiguity so prized by Anglo - American New Criticism - in the concept of Freudian negation . For Orlando , the real lesson of Freud for liter- ary interpreters lies not in detecting psychoanalytically charged motifs in the ...
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... once the notion of the privilege of birth came to be disputed—that is, a nobility conferred by time, genealogically, upon the previous ruling class. On the one hand, the need to devalue such a form of nobility could not be renounced, in ...
... once the notion of the privilege of birth came to be disputed—that is, a nobility conferred by time, genealogically, upon the previous ruling class. On the one hand, the need to devalue such a form of nobility could not be renounced, in ...
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... once repression has taken place — between contempt , which lies entirely in the realm of disciplined consciousness , and persevering esteem , which lies only in the unconscious . What is a worthless piece of trash for the conscious mind ...
... once repression has taken place — between contempt , which lies entirely in the realm of disciplined consciousness , and persevering esteem , which lies only in the unconscious . What is a worthless piece of trash for the conscious mind ...
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... once again showed its preference for many ancient , traditional conceptions that had previously been rejected , thus turning itself into the site of an irrational return of the repressed . And Engels ' passage is once again a ...
... once again showed its preference for many ancient , traditional conceptions that had previously been rejected , thus turning itself into the site of an irrational return of the repressed . And Engels ' passage is once again a ...
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... once considered precious . Consequently , excrement and the demon are considered equivalent , as objects of ... once was shit ; at other times , an imaginary depository for shit that once was gold . First , Confused Examples II I The ...
... once considered precious . Consequently , excrement and the demon are considered equivalent , as objects of ... once was shit ; at other times , an imaginary depository for shit that once was gold . First , Confused Examples II I The ...
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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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