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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Main Author: Orlando, Francesco, 1934-2010
Format: Book
Language:English
Italian
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2006
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