LEADER 03610nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910451706803321 005 20210527011121.0 010 $a1-281-72891-8 010 $a9786611728915 010 $a0-300-13821-0 024 3 $a9780300108088 035 $a(CKB)1000000000477761 035 $a(EBL)3420281 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000213350 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11172263 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000213350 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10150050 035 $a(PQKB)11425660 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000158277 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420281 035 $a(DE-B1597)485092 035 $a(OCoLC)1013956760 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300138214 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420281 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10190738 035 $a(OCoLC)923591193 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000477761 100 $a20051013d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aObsolete objects in the literary imagination$b[electronic resource] $eruins, relics, rarities, rubbish, uninhabited places, and hidden treasures /$fFrancesco Orlando ; tr. from the Italian by Gabriel Pihas and Daniel Seidel, with the collab. of Alessandra Grego ; foreword by David Quint 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (521 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-300-10808-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tForeword --$tAcknowledgments --$tNote on the Translation --$tI What This Book Is About --$tII First, Confused Examples --$tIII Making Decisions in Order to Proceed --$tIV A Tree Neither Genealogical Nor Botanical --$tV Twelve Categories Not to Be Too Sharply Distinguished --$tVI Some Twentieth-Century Novels --$tVII Praising and Disparaging the Functional --$tNotes --$tIndex of Subjects --$tIndex of Names and Texts 330 $aTranslated 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. 606 $aExoticism in literature 606 $aPicturesque, The, in literature 606 $aRuins in literature 606 $aLiterature, Modern$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aExoticism in literature. 615 0$aPicturesque, The, in literature. 615 0$aRuins in literature. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a809/.9332 700 $aOrlando$b Francesco$f1934-2010.$0144908 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451706803321 996 $aObsolete objects in the literary imagination$92477410 997 $aUNINA