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  1. Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination
    Ruins, Relics, Rarities, Rubbish, Uninhabited Places, and Hidden Treasures
    Published: 2006
    Publisher:  Yale University Press, New Haven ; ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan

    Universität Frankfurt, Elektronische Ressourcen
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    Contributor: Pihas, Gabriel; Seidel, Daniel; Grego, Alessandra
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780300138214
    RVK Categories: EC 6017
    Subjects: Literatur; Das Pittoreske; Exotik
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (521 pages)
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  2. Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination
    Ruins, Relics, Rarities, Rubbish, Uninhabited Places, and Hidden Treasures
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Yale University Press, New Haven, CT

    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... more

     

    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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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780300138214
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    Subjects: Ruins in literature; Picturesque, The, in literature; Literature, Modern; Exoticism in literature
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
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    Frontmatter -- -- 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 -- -- Notes -- -- Index of Subjects -- -- Index of Names and Texts

  3. Obsolete objects in the literary imagination
    ruins, relics, rarities, rubbish, uninhabited places, and hidden treasures
    Published: 2006
    Publisher:  Yale University Press, New Haven

    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780300138214; 0300108087
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    9780300108088
    Subjects: Exoticism in literature; Picturesque, The, in literature; Ruins in literature; Literature, Modern; Ruine <Motiv>; Das Pittoreske; Motiv; Literatur
    Scope: xvii, 500 p
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    Includes bibliographical references and indexes

  4. Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination
    Ruins, Relics, Rarities, Rubbish, Uninhabited Places, and Hidden Treasures
    Published: [2008]; ©2008
    Publisher:  Yale University Press, New Haven, CT

    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... more

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    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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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780300138214
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    Subjects: Exoticism in literature; Literature, Modern; Picturesque, The, in literature; Ruins in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / General
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (528 p.)
  5. Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination
    Ruins, Relics, Rarities, Rubbish, Uninhabited Places, and Hidden Treasures
    Published: [2008]
    Publisher:  Yale University Press, New Haven, CT ; Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin

    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... more

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    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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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780300138214
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  6. Obsolete objects in the literary imagination
    ruins, relics, rarities, rubbish, uninhabited places, and hidden treasures
    Published: c2006
    Publisher:  Yale University Press, New Haven

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0300108087; 0300138210; 1281728918; 9780300108088; 9780300138214; 9781281728913
    Subjects: TRAVEL / Special Interest / Literary; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Exoticism in literature; Literature, Modern; Picturesque, The, in literature; Ruins in literature; Exoticism in literature; Picturesque, The, in literature; Ruins in literature; Literature, Modern; Literatur; Ruine <Motiv>; Motiv; Das Pittoreske
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 500 p.)
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-480) and indexes

    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

    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 industrialisation, 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 in our culture, he concludes, is to remind us of what we have lost and what we are losing as we rush toward the future