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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... source note. Quotations and titles from other languages are taken from standard English-language translations identified in the notes. Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination What This Book Is xvii Note on the Translation.
... source note. Quotations and titles from other languages are taken from standard English-language translations identified in the notes. Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination What This Book Is xvii Note on the Translation.
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... taken here may certainly appear bizarre at first sight. And not only at first sight: perhaps even the reader who has reached the end of this book will find it hard to summarize in a few words, just as the author finds it hard at the ...
... taken here may certainly appear bizarre at first sight. And not only at first sight: perhaps even the reader who has reached the end of this book will find it hard to summarize in a few words, just as the author finds it hard at the ...
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... taken one by one . But if any kind of discovery was in fact beginning to take shape and find confirmation in the growing number of passages being compared , it suggested the exact opposite of a demonstration of the integrated , intact ...
... taken one by one . But if any kind of discovery was in fact beginning to take shape and find confirmation in the growing number of passages being compared , it suggested the exact opposite of a demonstration of the integrated , intact ...
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... taken advantage of the crisis in historicist orthodoxy . Behind it lies a convic- tion that has little to do with accredited literary sociology , although it scoffs at the idea - current in the 1970s and ' 80s - of literature's subject ...
... taken advantage of the crisis in historicist orthodoxy . Behind it lies a convic- tion that has little to do with accredited literary sociology , although it scoffs at the idea - current in the 1970s and ' 80s - of literature's subject ...
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... taken place — between contempt , which lies entirely in the realm of disciplined consciousness , and persevering esteem , which lies only in the unconscious . What is a worthless piece of trash for the conscious mind will , in the uncon ...
... taken place — between contempt , which lies entirely in the realm of disciplined consciousness , and persevering esteem , which lies only in the unconscious . What is a worthless piece of trash for the conscious mind will , in the uncon ...
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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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