Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Covid 19: il tempo sospeso
In questo periodo travagliato per tutta l’umanità ho scritto alcune mie considerazioni sul Covid19. Ma, soprattutto, ho voluto condividere con voi, sotto forma di fiaba High Fantasy, un messaggio cosmico proveniente dal bosco incantato sopra la Grotta Gigante, luogo vicino a Trieste, sull’altopiano carsico. Spero che attraverso questa mia lettura scorrevole comprenderete l’importanza di riuscire a mantenere stabile l’energia della terra che, assieme a noi, soffre, mandando da molto tempo segnali dei vari mutamenti climatici anomali causati dall’uomo.
Anno 1646
None
Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination
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.
