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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1013956760 Title: Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination : Ruins, Relics, Rarities, Rubbish, Uninhabited Places, and Hidden Treasures Publisher: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2008] ©2008 ISBN/ISSN: 9780300138214 0300138210 OCLC:1013956760

  
  

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Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination : Ruins, Relics, Rarities, Rubbish, Uninhabited Places, and Hidden Treasures

Publisher:	New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2008] ©2008
Edition/Format:	eBook : Document : Government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	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.  Read more...
Subjects	Exoticism in literature. Literature, Modern -- History and criticism. Picturesque, The, in literature. View all subjects
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