Obsolete objects in the literary imagination : ruins, relics, rarities, rubbish, uninhabited places, and hidden treasures / Francesco Orlando ; translated from the Italian by Gabriel Pihas and Daniel Seidel, with the collaboration of Alessandra Grego ; foreword by David Quint.

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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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Orlando, Francesco, 1934-2010
Other title:	Oggetti desueti nelle immagini della letteratura. English.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English Italian
Published:	New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2006.
Subjects:	Exoticism in literature. Picturesque, The, in literature. Ruins in literature. Literature, Modern > History and criticism. Literature, Modern. Criticism, interpretation, etc.