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Author(s): Francesco Orlando
ISBN(s): 9780300108088, 0300108087
Edition: annotated edition
File Details: PDF, 1.69 MB
Year: 2006
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0300108087 
ISBN 13: 9780300108088
Author: Francesco Orlando

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 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.

Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination Ruins Relics Rarities Rubbish Uninhabited Places and Hidden Treasures 1st Table of 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

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