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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... to set them side by side despite such diverse and numerous variants. I would say that it was the conjunction of a constant in form—more precisely, in syntax—with two con- stants in theme , that is , in content , 1 What This Book Is About.
... to set them side by side despite such diverse and numerous variants. I would say that it was the conjunction of a constant in form—more precisely, in syntax—with two con- stants in theme , that is , in content , 1 What This Book Is About.
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... theme , that is , in content , that were themselves linked to each other . The form was that of a list , of varying ... theme , only one particular kind of such objects — and on a monumental scale - seemed to have attracted scholars ...
... theme , that is , in content , that were themselves linked to each other . The form was that of a list , of varying ... theme , only one particular kind of such objects — and on a monumental scale - seemed to have attracted scholars ...
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... theme of worn - out furnishings and of the unstoppable deterioration of the house has already been presented in the first part . Mrs. Ramsay , the protagonist , fretted over it , and this was how her innate solicitude for others ...
... theme of worn - out furnishings and of the unstoppable deterioration of the house has already been presented in the first part . Mrs. Ramsay , the protagonist , fretted over it , and this was how her innate solicitude for others ...
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... body ( this is where excrement moves from its status as a secret , symbolic referent of a number of themes [ I , 6-7 ] , to the status of theme , or nearly so , in a text ) , but everything 38 First , Confused Examples II.11.
... body ( this is where excrement moves from its status as a secret , symbolic referent of a number of themes [ I , 6-7 ] , to the status of theme , or nearly so , in a text ) , but everything 38 First , Confused Examples II.11.
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... theme of sunken treasures that the sea has flung ashore . 13 As a fiction writer , Prosper Mérimée ( 1803–70 ) shared the descriptive inclinations of his time to the least possible degree , remaining relatively faith- ful to a pre ...
... theme of sunken treasures that the sea has flung ashore . 13 As a fiction writer , Prosper Mérimée ( 1803–70 ) shared the descriptive inclinations of his time to the least possible degree , remaining relatively faith- ful to a pre ...
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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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