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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... sense Plato was right to banish poetry from his utopian and inhuman republic . Because , moreover , the repres- sions of the dominant culture change over time , it is possible to historicize this model and to view the literary text as ...
... sense Plato was right to banish poetry from his utopian and inhuman republic . Because , moreover , the repres- sions of the dominant culture change over time , it is possible to historicize this model and to view the literary text as ...
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... sense of the word— physically concrete things presented on the imaginary plane of reality of the various literary texts . The second thematic constant was the decisive one , and the one most difficult to describe . It consisted in the ...
... sense of the word— physically concrete things presented on the imaginary plane of reality of the various literary texts . The second thematic constant was the decisive one , and the one most difficult to describe . It consisted in the ...
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... to desire itself, of every kind, erotic or political (in the broad sense), even before restricting actions. Nevertheless, in Freud's work, beyond anything he says about literature, there is a no less What This Book Is About I.3 5.
... to desire itself, of every kind, erotic or political (in the broad sense), even before restricting actions. Nevertheless, in Freud's work, beyond anything he says about literature, there is a no less What This Book Is About I.3 5.
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... 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 reserves or parks for the protection of nature . The ...
... 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 reserves or parks for the protection of nature . The ...
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... sense , as declared in the passage from the feeling of privacy of the first person singular that appears in the fourth line to the gravity of the first person plural that is repeated in the last lines . The mystery of the certainty of ...
... sense , as declared in the passage from the feeling of privacy of the first person singular that appears in the fourth line to the gravity of the first person plural that is repeated in the last lines . The mystery of the certainty of ...
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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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