Książka Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination Francesco Orlando

Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination

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

Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Twarda
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Translated here into English for the first time is a monumental work of literary history and critici...

Informacje o książce

Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Twarda
Data wydania
2006
strony
528
EAN
9780300108088
Enbook ID
04573764
Waga
912
Wymiary
166 x 235 x 38

Pełny opis

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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