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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... VENERABLE- REGRESSIVE THE WORN- REALISTIC 6 Before we move the tree toward new categories , let us go back to other examples of the defined and denominated categories . For each of them , let us consider three more texts . For the ...
... VENERABLE- REGRESSIVE THE WORN- REALISTIC 6 Before we move the tree toward new categories , let us go back to other examples of the defined and denominated categories . For each of them , let us consider three more texts . For the ...
Pagina 98
... venerable - regressive known to me , I find myself more or less in a period coinciding with that of the last example used for the solemn - admonitory : Diderot's Salons ran from 1759 to 1781 , and the short poems attributed to the third ...
... venerable - regressive known to me , I find myself more or less in a period coinciding with that of the last example used for the solemn - admonitory : Diderot's Salons ran from 1759 to 1781 , and the short poems attributed to the third ...
Pagina 99
... venerable - regressive one ; if this new cate- gory is replacing the old one here , it is still close to it even in other respects . Ossianic passages like the apostrophes to the evening star and to the moon — taken up by Goethe and ...
... venerable - regressive one ; if this new cate- gory is replacing the old one here , it is still close to it even in other respects . Ossianic passages like the apostrophes to the evening star and to the moon — taken up by Goethe and ...
Pagina 100
... venerable - regressive when faced with certain images , even if the level of determination of the values they represent is much vaguer than in the first , exceptional example of Saint - Denis . I would not otherwise dare to link our ...
... venerable - regressive when faced with certain images , even if the level of determination of the values they represent is much vaguer than in the first , exceptional example of Saint - Denis . I would not otherwise dare to link our ...
Pagina 101
... venerable - regressive definition demands , and we must not underrate it because this time it implies an occasion for refusal rather than for acceptance . For Faust , the room and objects are a “ world , ” and his new identity can ...
... venerable - regressive definition demands , and we must not underrate it because this time it implies an occasion for refusal rather than for acceptance . For Faust , the room and objects are a “ world , ” and his new identity can ...
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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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