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Author:

Orlando, Francesco, 1934-

Title:

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.

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

xvii, 500 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Exoticism in literature.
Picturesque, The, in literature.
Ruins in literature.
Literature, Modern--History and criticism.
Exotisme
Ruine (Bâtiment)
Pittoresque
Thème littéraire
Littérature moderne

Other Titles:

Oggetti desueti nelle immagini della letteratura. English

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-480) and indexes.

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.

ISBN:

9780300108088 (alk. paper)
0300108087 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)62090723

LCCN:

2005027649

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)