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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... represents both sides of Orlando's achievement . In his earlier work , available in English as Towards a Freudian Theory of Literature , with an Analysis of Racine's “ Phèdre ” ( 1978 ) , Orlando found a model for the capacity of the ...
... represents both sides of Orlando's achievement . In his earlier work , available in English as Towards a Freudian Theory of Literature , with an Analysis of Racine's “ Phèdre ” ( 1978 ) , Orlando found a model for the capacity of the ...
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... represented as having been , or in the process of being , deprived of or diminished in their functionality ; I have added that such characteristics . were to be determined on a case - by - case basis , given the historical variability ...
... represented as having been , or in the process of being , deprived of or diminished in their functionality ; I have added that such characteristics . were to be determined on a case - by - case basis , given the historical variability ...
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... represented by time , the cadaver , and feces seem rather to be reflected by the literary ambivalence of partially ... represents the conceptual sequel ) was soon subverted in the Ro- mantic rebellion ; literature once again showed its ...
... represented by time , the cadaver , and feces seem rather to be reflected by the literary ambivalence of partially ... represents the conceptual sequel ) was soon subverted in the Ro- mantic rebellion ; literature once again showed its ...
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... represented tournaments of old ; the knights and their iron armor hung down in shreds.7 We notice once again after quoting Roth's text that , as I already mentioned ( I , 4 , 7 ) , imaginary commodities may very well take their place ...
... represented tournaments of old ; the knights and their iron armor hung down in shreds.7 We notice once again after quoting Roth's text that , as I already mentioned ( I , 4 , 7 ) , imaginary commodities may very well take their place ...
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... represented by Don Juan and Faust. One cannot avoid noticing a disguised version of this legend in the story entitled MS. Found in a Bottle (1833) by Edgar Allan Poe (1809–49). At least superficially, the element of transgression is ...
... represented by Don Juan and Faust. One cannot avoid noticing a disguised version of this legend in the story entitled MS. Found in a Bottle (1833) by Edgar Allan Poe (1809–49). At least superficially, the element of transgression is ...
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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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