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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... pieces of literature . But before long , the alliance between literature and En- lightenment rationality ( the subject of the last book in my cycle , of which this book thus represents the conceptual sequel ) was soon subverted in the ...
... pieces of literature . But before long , the alliance between literature and En- lightenment rationality ( the subject of the last book in my cycle , of which this book thus represents the conceptual sequel ) was soon subverted in the ...
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... pieces of fruit protected by glass bells , A few unusual toys , chests made of valves , Objects with the warning hail , remembrance , coconuts , Venice portrayed in mosaics , slightly dull watercolors , Prints , coffers , albums ...
... pieces of fruit protected by glass bells , A few unusual toys , chests made of valves , Objects with the warning hail , remembrance , coconuts , Venice portrayed in mosaics , slightly dull watercolors , Prints , coffers , albums ...
Pagina 37
... pieces of invective against usurpation , abuse of power , and the corruption of a statesman and his reactionary regime - of Napoleon III and the Second Empire . But so great was Hugo's metaphorical and hyperbolic creativity that all ...
... pieces of invective against usurpation , abuse of power , and the corruption of a statesman and his reactionary regime - of Napoleon III and the Second Empire . But so great was Hugo's metaphorical and hyperbolic creativity that all ...
Pagina 39
... piece of prose by André Breton ( 1896-1967 ) that was published in 1937 , shows throughout , and specifically in the ... pieces of floating blue wood , a champagne cork , the last two centimeters of a pink candle , a cuttlefish bone no ...
... piece of prose by André Breton ( 1896-1967 ) that was published in 1937 , shows throughout , and specifically in the ... pieces of floating blue wood , a champagne cork , the last two centimeters of a pink candle , a cuttlefish bone no ...
Pagina 40
... piece of debris that at least had the merit of being unexpected . The list that we read is the first of our series to ... pieces of floating blue wood , the pinkish cuttlefish bone , and the very white crab skeleton seem to have been ...
... piece of debris that at least had the merit of being unexpected . The list that we read is the first of our series to ... pieces of floating blue wood , the pinkish cuttlefish bone , and the very white crab skeleton seem to have been ...
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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 |
Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination: Ruins, Relics, Rarities ... Francesco Orlando Nu există previzualizare disponibilă - 2006 |
Termeni și expresii frecvente
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