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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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| Language: | Inglés Italiano |
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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.