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Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination

Name: Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination
Brand: Yale University Press
SKU: 04573764
Price: 96.56 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Francesco Orlando
ISBN: 9780300108088

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

Francesco Orlando

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English

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Libristo code: 04573764

Publishers Yale University Press, June 2006

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

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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.