Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination

Name: Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination
Brand: Yale University Press
SKU: 9780300108088
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Ruins, Relics, Rarities, Rubbish, Uninhabited Places, and Hidden Treasures

Автор: Francesco Orlando

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Издател: Yale University Press

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Translated here into English for the first time is a monumental work of literary history and critici...

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Автор

Francesco Orlando

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2006

страници

528

EAN

9780300108088

Enbook ID

04573764

Издател

Yale University Press

Теглоt

912

Размери

166 x 235 x 38

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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 industrialisation, 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 in our culture, 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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Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination

Ruins, Relics, Rarities, Rubbish, Uninhabited Places, and Hidden Treasures

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