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  1. Literature in the public service
    sublime bureaucracy
    Autor*in: Sullivan, Ceri
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke [u.a.]

    "Historians and sociologists have been consistently - albeit gloomily - enthralled by Max Weber's model of the inevitable rise of the neurocrat. However, literary critics positively boast that writers, like academics, cannot 'do admin'. While Weber's... mehr

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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
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    1 A 887848
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    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
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    2013 A 19367
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    Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
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    "Historians and sociologists have been consistently - albeit gloomily - enthralled by Max Weber's model of the inevitable rise of the neurocrat. However, literary critics positively boast that writers, like academics, cannot 'do admin'. While Weber's thesis about the rise of the entrepreneur - all fire, individuality, thrust - is in tune with what we think literature is about, his thesis about the rise of the bureaucrat is not, yet 'creative bureaucracy' is not only a euphemism for bending the rules. Literature in the Public Service shows how the public service makes its workers original, taking them beyond an individuated point of view to imagine the perfect public system. Creativity theorists too have swapped the model of solitary inspiration for a managed creative environment. John Milton, Anthony Trollope, and David Hare are examples of how authors work in and write about the public service, during its crisis moments"--

     
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    Quelle: Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    Format: Druck
    ISBN: 9781137287410
    RVK Klassifikation: HG 434
    Schlagworte: English literature; Bureaucracy in literature; Civil service in literature; Literature and civil service; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
    Weitere Schlagworte: Milton, John (1608-1674); Trollope, Anthony (1815-1882); Hare, David (1947-)
    Umfang: VIII, 218 S.
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    Literaturverzeichnis S. 190 - 209

    Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Weber, Bureaucracy, and Creativity -- The 1650s: Milton and the Beginning of Civil Service -- The 1850s: Trollope and the Height of Civil Service Ambitions -- The Present: Hare and Shrinking Government Provision -- Coda: Bureaucratic Creativity -- Bibliography -- Index.