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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... traditional, universal sense of memento mori is complemented by more socially inflected feelings and attitudes. This ... tradition. An incidental pleasure and lesson for English-speaking readers lies in the book's configuration of ...
... traditional, universal sense of memento mori is complemented by more socially inflected feelings and attitudes. This ... tradition. An incidental pleasure and lesson for English-speaking readers lies in the book's configuration of ...
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... tradition of stylistic and rhetorical studies . But even Leo Spitzer's well - known essay on " enumerative style " 1 did not seem to me to be limited in any way by the condition that the randomly enumerated things had to be physical ...
... tradition of stylistic and rhetorical studies . But even Leo Spitzer's well - known essay on " enumerative style " 1 did not seem to me to be limited in any way by the condition that the randomly enumerated things had to be physical ...
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... tradition was able to elicit intransigent , grandiose claims of rational universality , although it was set in ... traditional notion was flung into the lumber - room as irrational , ” it is clear that literature is also concerned ...
... tradition was able to elicit intransigent , grandiose claims of rational universality , although it was set in ... traditional notion was flung into the lumber - room as irrational , ” it is clear that literature is also concerned ...
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... traditional forms of literary history with regard to the relationship between a text and its “ source . ” I am referring to the following lines from the second of the four poems entitled Spleen : I've more memories than if I were a ...
... traditional forms of literary history with regard to the relationship between a text and its “ source . ” I am referring to the following lines from the second of the four poems entitled Spleen : I've more memories than if I were a ...
Pagina 24
... tradition of Enlighten- ment irony ( rather than that of Brecht ) , all the more so when - elsewhere in the novel ... traditions , and temporally , thanks to the antiquity of their deactivated religious purposes . The fact that the ...
... tradition of Enlighten- ment irony ( rather than that of Brecht ) , all the more so when - elsewhere in the novel ... traditions , and temporally , thanks to the antiquity of their deactivated religious purposes . The fact that the ...
Cuprins
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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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