Obsolete objects in the literary imagination : ruins, relics, rarities, rubbish, uninhabited places, and hidden treasures /
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 object...
Основен автор: | Orlando, Francesco, 1934-2010. |
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Формат: | Електронна книга |
Език: | English Italian |
Публикувано: |
New Haven :
Yale University Press,
℗♭2006.
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Print version::
Obsolete objects in the literary imagination. |
Съдържание:
- What this book is about
- First, confused examples
- Making decisions in order to proceed
- A tree neither genealogical nor botanical
- Twelve categories not to be too sharply distinguished
- Some twentieth-century novels
- Praising and disparaging the functional.