03610nam 2200673Ia 450 991045170680332120210527011121.01-281-72891-897866117289150-300-13821-09780300108088(CKB)1000000000477761(EBL)3420281(SSID)ssj0000213350(PQKBManifestationID)11172263(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000213350(PQKBWorkID)10150050(PQKB)11425660(StDuBDS)EDZ0000158277(MiAaPQ)EBC3420281(DE-B1597)485092(OCoLC)1013956760(DE-B1597)9780300138214(Au-PeEL)EBL3420281(CaPaEBR)ebr10190738(OCoLC)923591193(EXLCZ)99100000000047776120051013d2006 uy 0engurun#---|u||utxtccrObsolete objects in the literary imagination[electronic resource] ruins, relics, rarities, rubbish, uninhabited places, and hidden treasures /Francesco Orlando ; tr. from the Italian by Gabriel Pihas and Daniel Seidel, with the collab. of Alessandra Grego ; foreword by David QuintNew Haven Yale University Press20061 online resource (521 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-300-10808-7 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Front matter --Contents --Foreword --Acknowledgments --Note on the Translation --I What This Book Is About --II First, Confused Examples --III Making Decisions in Order to Proceed --IV A Tree Neither Genealogical Nor Botanical --V Twelve Categories Not to Be Too Sharply Distinguished --VI Some Twentieth-Century Novels --VII Praising and Disparaging the Functional --Notes --Index of Subjects --Index of Names and TextsTranslated 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.Exoticism in literaturePicturesque, The, in literatureRuins in literatureLiterature, ModernHistory and criticismElectronic books.Exoticism in literature.Picturesque, The, in literature.Ruins in literature.Literature, ModernHistory and criticism.809/.9332Orlando Francesco1934-2010.144908MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451706803321Obsolete objects in the literary imagination2477410UNINA