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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... period onward . 2 ― For the time being , I shall make use of somewhat imprecise terminology in order to indicate my determining thematic constant , and it is too soon even to be at all precise about the chronological distribution of the ...
... period onward . 2 ― For the time being , I shall make use of somewhat imprecise terminology in order to indicate my determining thematic constant , and it is too soon even to be at all precise about the chronological distribution of the ...
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... period in which industrial revolution in England and political revolution in France were forcing upon the world well- matured models of secular rationalization that had begun two centuries earlier and that , in two more centuries ...
... period in which industrial revolution in England and political revolution in France were forcing upon the world well- matured models of secular rationalization that had begun two centuries earlier and that , in two more centuries ...
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... period on , this statement would be nothing more than an overstatement of truth by metonymy , antonomasia , and hyperbole . Like commodities in a real situation , well ordered by a functional imperative , so our constants , in a ...
... period on , this statement would be nothing more than an overstatement of truth by metonymy , antonomasia , and hyperbole . Like commodities in a real situation , well ordered by a functional imperative , so our constants , in a ...
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... period in the collective past . I would say that the choice of grandma's day was not made at random . Fifty or sixty years the space of two generations- are as far back as an individual can go to summon up a still concrete image through ...
... period in the collective past . I would say that the choice of grandma's day was not made at random . Fifty or sixty years the space of two generations- are as far back as an individual can go to summon up a still concrete image through ...
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... period in that language — to 1842 , the year in which Nikolai V. Gogol ( 1809-52 ) published as Volume I of his novel Dead Souls the only part he was to complete . The title has two mean- ings : the moral - metaphorical one alludes to ...
... period in that language — to 1842 , the year in which Nikolai V. Gogol ( 1809-52 ) published as Volume I of his novel Dead Souls the only part he was to complete . The title has two mean- ings : the moral - metaphorical one alludes to ...
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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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Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination: Ruins, Relics, Rarities ... Francesco Orlando Previzualizare limitată - 2008 |
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