Description: Obsolete Objects in Literary Imagination : Ruins, Relics, Rarities, Rubbish, Uninhabited Places, And Hidden Treasures, Hardcover by Orlando, Francesco, ISBN 0300108087, ISBN-13 9780300108088, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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.
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Book Title: Obsolete Objects in Literary Imagination : Ruins, Relics, Raritie
Number of Pages: 528 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination : Ruins, Relics, Rarities, Rubbish, Uninhabited Places, and Hidden Treasures
Publisher: Yale University Press
Subject: General, Modern / General, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year: 2006
Item Height: 0.1 in
Item Weight: 32.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Francesco. Orlando
Item Length: 0.9 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism
Item Width: 0.7 in
Format: Hardcover
