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 6
... seen that I am not taking undue advantage of the relatively approximate nature of the language with which, for the time being, I characterize things, if, for example, I should speak of them as accursed, abject, foul, squalid, shady ...
... seen that I am not taking undue advantage of the relatively approximate nature of the language with which, for the time being, I characterize things, if, for example, I should speak of them as accursed, abject, foul, squalid, shady ...
Pagina 11
... seen under- lying the properly literary compromise - formation a compromise with the functional in the situations themselves — at what we may call a preliterary level : an ambivalence through which the return of the antifunctional ...
... seen under- lying the properly literary compromise - formation a compromise with the functional in the situations themselves — at what we may call a preliterary level : an ambivalence through which the return of the antifunctional ...
Pagina 16
... seen as a space granted to excrement . This space is more deeply ambiguous not only than the lumber room , but also than the immense or monstrous accumulation of anticommodities or than the preserve for wild flora and fauna . Sometimes ...
... seen as a space granted to excrement . This space is more deeply ambiguous not only than the lumber room , but also than the immense or monstrous accumulation of anticommodities or than the preserve for wild flora and fauna . Sometimes ...
Pagina 27
... seen: rosaries, medals, several Blessed Vir- gins, a holy water stoup made of coconut; on the commode, covered by a sheet, like an altar, a box made of seashells that Victor had given her; then, a watering-can and a ball, some notebooks ...
... seen: rosaries, medals, several Blessed Vir- gins, a holy water stoup made of coconut; on the commode, covered by a sheet, like an altar, a box made of seashells that Victor had given her; then, a watering-can and a ball, some notebooks ...
Pagina 30
... seen through Chichikov's eyes — which are ours , here- and so is the sight of the proprietor himself , who is dressed so indecorously that one can hardly tell his sex . The author's voice will soon intervene , explaining and recounting ...
... seen through Chichikov's eyes — which are ours , here- and so is the sight of the proprietor himself , who is dressed so indecorously that one can hardly tell his sex . The author's voice will soon intervene , explaining and recounting ...
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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Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination: Ruins, Relics, Rarities ... Francesco Orlando Previzualizare limitată - 2008 |
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Termeni și expresii frecvente
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