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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... supernatural characters — a living dead person and a living mandrake — is traveling in Flanders ; to get new clothes , they all stop in at the home of a friend of the old woman's who deals in used and occasionally stolen goods ...
... supernatural characters — a living dead person and a living mandrake — is traveling in Flanders ; to get new clothes , they all stop in at the home of a friend of the old woman's who deals in used and occasionally stolen goods ...
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... supernatural had to come to terms with this code . The result was that genre of compromise between the real and the unreal , between criticism of the supernatural as not verisimilar and the credit that we surrep- titiously grant to it ...
... supernatural had to come to terms with this code . The result was that genre of compromise between the real and the unreal , between criticism of the supernatural as not verisimilar and the credit that we surrep- titiously grant to it ...
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... three winning cards . The supernatural doubt that runs through the episode and obscures its epilogue in no way interferes with the realistic ― concreteness — in the descriptive sense as well as First , Confused Examples II.9 33.
... three winning cards . The supernatural doubt that runs through the episode and obscures its epilogue in no way interferes with the realistic ― concreteness — in the descriptive sense as well as First , Confused Examples II.9 33.
Pagina 34
... supernatural doubt , although the most propitious settings for this purpose were and remained castles , owing to their vastness and age . In the 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf ( 1882-1941 ) To the Lighthouse , a spectral , nocturnal ...
... supernatural doubt , although the most propitious settings for this purpose were and remained castles , owing to their vastness and age . In the 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf ( 1882-1941 ) To the Lighthouse , a spectral , nocturnal ...
Pagina 41
... supernatural yet nevertheless are not satisfied by words only but require objects as well , magic's figurative and symbolic logic will flee from physical or chemical functionality ; and its choices will appear ( rightfully so , I would ...
... supernatural yet nevertheless are not satisfied by words only but require objects as well , magic's figurative and symbolic logic will flee from physical or chemical functionality ; and its choices will appear ( rightfully so , I would ...
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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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