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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... refer the reader to the specific cases discussed in the textual quotations and analyses that follow . Perhaps I should also confirm the reader's expectation that a study of a presumable return of the antifunctional repressed in ...
... refer the reader to the specific cases discussed in the textual quotations and analyses that follow . Perhaps I should also confirm the reader's expectation that a study of a presumable return of the antifunctional repressed in ...
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... refer to a purely literary compromise - formation . Whereas in the case of such images as the six I formerly presented , we have seen under- lying the properly literary compromise - formation a compromise with the functional in the ...
... refer to a purely literary compromise - formation . Whereas in the case of such images as the six I formerly presented , we have seen under- lying the properly literary compromise - formation a compromise with the functional in the ...
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... refer to return of the repressed in a much broader sense than its technical and psychic one — is filled with content very closely connected to literature in Freud's brilliant comparison between the psychic realm of imagination and ...
... refer to return of the repressed in a much broader sense than its technical and psychic one — is filled with content very closely connected to literature in Freud's brilliant comparison between the psychic realm of imagination and ...
Pagina 45
... refer us , approximately , to the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries , with their transoceanic navigations and intercontinental discoveries . The captain , his head bent , examines a document signed by a monarch , and near him and the ...
... refer us , approximately , to the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries , with their transoceanic navigations and intercontinental discoveries . The captain , his head bent , examines a document signed by a monarch , and near him and the ...
Pagina 47
... refer to a type of order that displays, one after another, the postulates that underlie the subject of inquiry, and the options or restrictions that give direction to the plan—having recon- sidered them retrospectively. Is there a risk ...
... refer to a type of order that displays, one after another, the postulates that underlie the subject of inquiry, and the options or restrictions that give direction to the plan—having recon- sidered them retrospectively. Is there a risk ...
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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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