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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... speaking readers lies in the book's configuration of literary history in which France plays at least as important a shaping role as England and North America, a reflection only in part, I think, of Orlando's professional vocation. At a ...
... speaking readers lies in the book's configuration of literary history in which France plays at least as important a shaping role as England and North America, a reflection only in part, I think, of Orlando's professional vocation. At a ...
Pagina 6
... speak of them as accursed, abject, foul, squalid, shady, dreadful, pitiable, moving, extravagant, or ridiculous. It is as if the return of the repressed, which elsewhere would not be of a material nature, had become incarnate and ...
... speak of them as accursed, abject, foul, squalid, shady, dreadful, pitiable, moving, extravagant, or ridiculous. It is as if the return of the repressed, which elsewhere would not be of a material nature, had become incarnate and ...
Pagina 9
... speaking—interest that matured in a greedy imagination, not in a bank, but during a long intermediate stay deep in the earth or at sea. Finally, antiques are common enough merchandise, and high- priced merchandise at that, so much so as ...
... speaking—interest that matured in a greedy imagination, not in a bank, but during a long intermediate stay deep in the earth or at sea. Finally, antiques are common enough merchandise, and high- priced merchandise at that, so much so as ...
Pagina 15
... speak of anticommodities means to consider even commodity fetish- ism as in some way ambivalent - if not outside ... speaking , inverted , together with its exchange value and its use value . And this , too , can be extended to the ...
... speak of anticommodities means to consider even commodity fetish- ism as in some way ambivalent - if not outside ... speaking , inverted , together with its exchange value and its use value . And this , too , can be extended to the ...
Pagina 17
... speak for themselves ; but which texts , out of so many possible ones ? Their selection and arrangement in a certain order will follow from my intention to begin to demonstrate , in concrete terms , that unity of the subject of inquiry ...
... speak for themselves ; but which texts , out of so many possible ones ? Their selection and arrangement in a certain order will follow from my intention to begin to demonstrate , in concrete terms , that unity of the subject of inquiry ...
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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Termeni și expresii frecvente
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