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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... oppositions. The ensuing fifth chapter traces through an exhaustive series of examples the chronological range of each category, where it begins and ends in literary history: the book's modern focus becomes clear here, as a traditional ...
... oppositions. The ensuing fifth chapter traces through an exhaustive series of examples the chronological range of each category, where it begins and ends in literary history: the book's modern focus becomes clear here, as a traditional ...
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... opposition to each other , and both reverse with the passage of time . — If we had reached the ultimate depth even with this last form of ambiva- lence , still , as students of literature it is the Freudian logical or antilogical model ...
... opposition to each other , and both reverse with the passage of time . — If we had reached the ultimate depth even with this last form of ambiva- lence , still , as students of literature it is the Freudian logical or antilogical model ...
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... opposition to what is presumably the characters ' judgment . To us , it suggests for the first time the modern problem ( which does not go back earlier than the mid - 1800s ) of so- called bad taste or , to use a more specialized term ...
... opposition to what is presumably the characters ' judgment . To us , it suggests for the first time the modern problem ( which does not go back earlier than the mid - 1800s ) of so- called bad taste or , to use a more specialized term ...
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... opposition . The respective ironies project two opposing attitudes toward the values of a good bourgeois con- science onto the ornaments in question . The pre - First World War poet rele- gated them to the past and indulged in their as ...
... opposition . The respective ironies project two opposing attitudes toward the values of a good bourgeois con- science onto the ornaments in question . The pre - First World War poet rele- gated them to the past and indulged in their as ...
Pagina 50
... opposition to each other , thereby making them incompatible . Let us at once make two comple- mentary decisions regarding our constants , with the following formulations : II . To see them as referring directly to real facts is ...
... opposition to each other , thereby making them incompatible . Let us at once make two comple- mentary decisions regarding our constants , with the following formulations : II . To see them as referring directly to real facts is ...
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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