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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Pagina 2
... seem to me to be limited in any way by the condition that the randomly enumerated things had to be physical things , much less decayed or obsolete ones . On the other hand , with respect to theme , only one particular kind of such ...
... seem to me to be limited in any way by the condition that the randomly enumerated things had to be physical things , much less decayed or obsolete ones . On the other hand , with respect to theme , only one particular kind of such ...
Pagina 3
... seems to lend itself more to the denial of any relationship of functionality between man and things than to its representation — which , if the relationship be whole and intact , would rather require the evaluation of the things taken ...
... seems to lend itself more to the denial of any relationship of functionality between man and things than to its representation — which , if the relationship be whole and intact , would rather require the evaluation of the things taken ...
Pagina 6
... seem strange, at first glance, that images of merely physical things are related to imaginary moral or rational transgressions. But carrying out the opposite experiment would suffice to confirm the relationship—that is, to attribute to ...
... seem strange, at first glance, that images of merely physical things are related to imaginary moral or rational transgressions. But carrying out the opposite experiment would suffice to confirm the relationship—that is, to attribute to ...
Pagina 8
... seem to overstep our discussion's limits, inasmuch as the things demon- strate undeniable connotations of functionality; on the contrary, they are perti- nent because this actually present functionality presupposes another that has been ...
... seem to overstep our discussion's limits, inasmuch as the things demon- strate undeniable connotations of functionality; on the contrary, they are perti- nent because this actually present functionality presupposes another that has been ...
Pagina 10
... seem only half-pertinent to our material. And it is not difficult to contrast them now with simple examples that correspond to wholly pertinent materials. Such will be all examples (and they might appear to be the only ones) in which ...
... seem only half-pertinent to our material. And it is not difficult to contrast them now with simple examples that correspond to wholly pertinent materials. Such will be all examples (and they might appear to be the only ones) in which ...
Cuprins
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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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