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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... story , letter , memoir ) , its center is the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and their characteristic forms : the lyric and , above all , the novel . This book , then , is primarily about modernity , whose " historical turning point ...
... story , letter , memoir ) , its center is the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and their characteristic forms : the lyric and , above all , the novel . This book , then , is primarily about modernity , whose " historical turning point ...
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... story . Contrary to Borges ' everyday things , rendered absolute in a metaphysical and metahistorical sense , here we have dated or historicized everyday things : chosen because of their typicality in relation to a period in the ...
... story . Contrary to Borges ' everyday things , rendered absolute in a metaphysical and metahistorical sense , here we have dated or historicized everyday things : chosen because of their typicality in relation to a period in the ...
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... story , it is presented both caustically and dryly . Let us attempt to replace the idea of a pure difference , and the risk of its presenting us with nothing interest- ing , with the ever - interesting idea of an opposition . The ...
... story , it is presented both caustically and dryly . Let us attempt to replace the idea of a pure difference , and the risk of its presenting us with nothing interest- ing , with the ever - interesting idea of an opposition . The ...
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... story Isa- belle of Egypt : Emperor Charles the Fifth's First Love ( Isabella von Ägypten : Kaiser Karl des Fünften erste Jugendliebe ) , by Achim von Arnim ( 1781- 1831 ) . Arnim's name is linked above all to the famous collection of ...
... story Isa- belle of Egypt : Emperor Charles the Fifth's First Love ( Isabella von Ägypten : Kaiser Karl des Fünften erste Jugendliebe ) , by Achim von Arnim ( 1781- 1831 ) . Arnim's name is linked above all to the famous collection of ...
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... story, that the room itself is described to us: This place, into which she allowed few to enter, looked like both a chapel and a bazaar, containing as it did so many religious objects and miscellaneous things. A large wardrobe made ...
... story, that the room itself is described to us: This place, into which she allowed few to enter, looked like both a chapel and a bazaar, containing as it did so many religious objects and miscellaneous things. A large wardrobe made ...
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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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