Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination : Ruins, Relics, Rarities, Rubbish, Uninhabited Places, and Hidden Treasures / Francesco Orlando.

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, ob...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2008]
Subjects:	Exoticism in literature. Literature, Modern > History and criticism. Picturesque, The, in literature. Ruins in literature. Literature, Modern. Criticism, interpretation, etc.