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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... precisely as a testimony to the past , possesses an irreplaceable qual- ity that cannot be controlled by the authority of professional nonliterary histo- rians , something that cannot be compared with any other kind of document that ...
... precisely as a testimony to the past , possesses an irreplaceable qual- ity that cannot be controlled by the authority of professional nonliterary histo- rians , something that cannot be compared with any other kind of document that ...
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... precisely to their freshness . The subsequent collection of poems is thus identified exclusively with artifi- cial , gratuitous , or withered objects : paintings , gewgaws , remnants of bour- geois décor , the fetishes of erotic memory ...
... precisely to their freshness . The subsequent collection of poems is thus identified exclusively with artifi- cial , gratuitous , or withered objects : paintings , gewgaws , remnants of bour- geois décor , the fetishes of erotic memory ...
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... precisely because of the eccentricity of decontextualizations of this sort , because of their disguising of chance in dreamlike creativity , and because of their contemporary effect as complacently counterfeit kitsch . I said contempo ...
... precisely because of the eccentricity of decontextualizations of this sort , because of their disguising of chance in dreamlike creativity , and because of their contemporary effect as complacently counterfeit kitsch . I said contempo ...
Pagina 28
... precisely , a decontextualization of everything . Yet , as in Gozzano , this value or taste judg- ment is an author's judgment and is unrelated to the character , whose tender- ness makes each fetish respectable and lends subjective ...
... precisely , a decontextualization of everything . Yet , as in Gozzano , this value or taste judg- ment is an author's judgment and is unrelated to the character , whose tender- ness makes each fetish respectable and lends subjective ...
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... Precisely what was in this pile it was hard to tell , for there was such an abundance of dust on it that the hands of anyone who touched it resembled gloves ; most conspicuously , there stuck out from it a broken - off piece of a wooden ...
... Precisely what was in this pile it was hard to tell , for there was such an abundance of dust on it that the hands of anyone who touched it resembled gloves ; most conspicuously , there stuck out from it a broken - off piece of a wooden ...
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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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