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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... poems is thus identified exclusively with artificial, gratuitous, or withered objects: paintings, gewgaws, remnants of bourgeois décor, the fetishes of erotic memory. But, thanks to an inevitable met- onymic extension from the parts to ...
... poems is thus identified exclusively with artificial, gratuitous, or withered objects: paintings, gewgaws, remnants of bourgeois décor, the fetishes of erotic memory. But, thanks to an inevitable met- onymic extension from the parts to ...
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... Poetic discourse cannot confirm theoretical discourse unless it exaggerates it figuratively. In the previous chapter ... poems. Thus, prudently, our first transition from one text to another closely approaches the most traditional forms ...
... Poetic discourse cannot confirm theoretical discourse unless it exaggerates it figuratively. In the previous chapter ... poems. Thus, prudently, our first transition from one text to another closely approaches the most traditional forms ...
Pagina 20
... poem's speaking subject has entered a metaphorical relationship, he wholly absorbs the objects, but on the other, he ... poems entirely consisting of lists, and of lists of things; that in all of these the generic reminiscence of the ...
... poem's speaking subject has entered a metaphorical relationship, he wholly absorbs the objects, but on the other, he ... poems entirely consisting of lists, and of lists of things; that in all of these the generic reminiscence of the ...
Pagina 22
... poem's five sections is closed in less than a line, but in the meantime a poetic ''I'' has emerged for an instant, together with a date. The ''I'' will not reappear until the fifth section, when, finally becoming explicit, it will ...
... poem's five sections is closed in less than a line, but in the meantime a poetic ''I'' has emerged for an instant, together with a date. The ''I'' will not reappear until the fifth section, when, finally becoming explicit, it will ...
Pagina 24
... poem, the irony is easy to see and affectionately backward-looking; in the story, it is presented both caustically and dryly. Let us attempt to replace the idea of a pure difference, and the risk of its presenting us with nothing ...
... poem, the irony is easy to see and affectionately backward-looking; in the story, it is presented both caustically and dryly. Let us attempt to replace the idea of a pure difference, and the risk of its presenting us with nothing ...
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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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