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Modernism and the culture of efficiency : ideology and fiction /

Cobley's close readings of modernist British fiction by writers as diverse as Aldous Huxley, Joseph Conrad, and E.M. Forster identify characters whose attitudes and behaviour patterns indirectly manifest cultural anxieties that can be traced to the conflicted logic of efficiency.

Основен автор: Cobley, Evelyn.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2009.
Предмети:
1900-1999
Modernism (Literature)
Industrial efficiency > Social aspects.
Technological innovations > Social aspects.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Technology in literature.
Efficiency, Industrial > Social aspects.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
ENGLISH FICTION.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Modernism and the culture of efficiency.
Съдържание:
  • Efficiency and the Great Exhibition of 1851 : elation and doubt
  • Efficient machines and docile bodies : Henry Ford and F.W. Taylor
  • An experiment in (in)efficient organization and social engineering : Auschwitz
  • Efficiency and disciplinary power : the iron cage and the suburb
  • Efficiency and population control : Wells, Shaw, Orwell, Forster
  • "Criminal" efficiency : Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness
  • Efficient management : D.H. Lawrence's Women in love
  • Efficiency and perverse outcomes : Ford Madox Ford's The good soldier
  • Efficiency and its alternatives : E.M. Forster's Howards end
  • Efficiency and the perfect society : Aldous Huxley's Brave new world.

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