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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Orlando, Francesco, 1934-2010
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Italiano
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2006.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.