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 7
... space , is inclined to contra- dict the real order of things . 4 In this way , the obligation of presenting this book through a preliminary definition of its subject , hard to summarize as this may be , could be considered achieved . My ...
... space , is inclined to contra- dict the real order of things . 4 In this way , the obligation of presenting this book through a preliminary definition of its subject , hard to summarize as this may be , could be considered achieved . My ...
Pagina 11
... space . Not one of these six images would appear other than absolutely unpleasant outside the field of literature . And if , on the contrary , lingering on such images in literature is quite capable of providing pleasure — as anyone who ...
... space . Not one of these six images would appear other than absolutely unpleasant outside the field of literature . And if , on the contrary , lingering on such images in literature is quite capable of providing pleasure — as anyone who ...
Pagina 13
... spaces dedicated to the preservation of the original state of nature , he says , " in places where the requirements ... space of a purely literary compromise - formation - in the language of which , images that are only negative find a ...
... spaces dedicated to the preservation of the original state of nature , he says , " in places where the requirements ... space of a purely literary compromise - formation - in the language of which , images that are only negative find a ...
Pagina 16
... space reserved for the demon ( which to some extent is also the site for the irrational return of the repressed ) , then , similarly , insofar as it is the site of an antifunctional return of the repressed it will also be seen as a space ...
... space reserved for the demon ( which to some extent is also the site for the irrational return of the repressed ) , then , similarly , insofar as it is the site of an antifunctional return of the repressed it will also be seen as a space ...
Pagina 22
... space of two generations- are as far back as an individual can go to summon up a still concrete image through family memories . - وو Gozzano's text plays upon intergenerational detachment accentuated by the evolution of the bourgeoisie ...
... space of two generations- are as far back as an individual can go to summon up a still concrete image through family memories . - وو Gozzano's text plays upon intergenerational detachment accentuated by the evolution of the bourgeoisie ...
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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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