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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... tion , Orlando produced the typescript of the bulk of Il Gattopardo , and was thus present at the birth of the great novel . He has written a moving , two - part memoir of this formative , if also difficult relationship , as well as an ...
... tion , Orlando produced the typescript of the bulk of Il Gattopardo , and was thus present at the birth of the great novel . He has written a moving , two - part memoir of this formative , if also difficult relationship , as well as an ...
Pagina 4
... 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 being either itself or nothing , or else absolute alterity . It is , rather , the ...
... 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 being either itself or nothing , or else absolute alterity . It is , rather , the ...
Pagina 8
... tion with the real literary texts that the reader will come upon later. Further- more, I shall use intentionally conventional examples, one by one, as if they were so many illustrations codified by the collective imagination before or ...
... tion with the real literary texts that the reader will come upon later. Further- more, I shall use intentionally conventional examples, one by one, as if they were so many illustrations codified by the collective imagination before or ...
Pagina 17
... to his verse collec- tion The Sandalwood Chest ( Le Coffret de santal ) : Knick - knacks of uncertain use , Dead flowers upon almahs ' breasts , Hair , gifts from delighted virgins , Locks quickly torn 17 First, Confused Examples.
... to his verse collec- tion The Sandalwood Chest ( Le Coffret de santal ) : Knick - knacks of uncertain use , Dead flowers upon almahs ' breasts , Hair , gifts from delighted virgins , Locks quickly torn 17 First, Confused Examples.
Pagina 43
... tion of why the exterior has been left in such sordid condition . On the other hand , the respective metaphoric values are of a clarity that is all the more impressive for being impossible to grasp in a first reading until one is very ...
... tion of why the exterior has been left in such sordid condition . On the other hand , the respective metaphoric values are of a clarity that is all the more impressive for being impossible to grasp in a first reading until one is very ...
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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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Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination: Ruins, Relics, Rarities ... Francesco Orlando Previzualizare limitată - 2008 |
Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination: Ruins, Relics, Rarities ... Francesco Orlando Nu există previzualizare disponibilă - 2006 |
Termeni și expresii frecvente
adjectives already ambivalence ancien régime ancient antifunctional antiquity appears Balzac Baroque become Bibliothèque castle catachresis century chap chapter character Chateaubriand Comédie humaine contamination culture dead death desolate-disconnected Everyman's Library examples fact functional furniture genre Gothic novel historical turning point human hyperbole Ibid imagery images Jerusalem Delivered kitsch La Comédie humaine la Pléiade Les Rougon-Macquart less lines literary literature magic memory metaphor metonymy Milan modern Mondadori narrative narrator nature negative category night nonfunctional corporality novel objects Oblomov Oeuvres complètes opposition Orlando outdoing Oxford University Press palace Paris passage past Pléiade poem poetic precious-potential present pretentious-fictitious protagonist quoted refer relationship remains reminiscent-affective repressed ruins seems semantic tree semipositive category sense sinister-terrifying solemn-admonitory space sterile-noxious story supernatural symbolic tercet thematic constants theme things threadbare-grotesque tion tradition trans treasure Turin venerable-regressive walls words worn-realistic