1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910957280203321

Autore

Iedema Rick

Titolo

Discourses of post-bureaucratic organization / / Rick Iedema

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, c2003

ISBN

9786612161216

9781282161214

1282161210

9789027296481

9027296480

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Collana

Document design companion series, , 1568-1963 ; ; v. 5

Disciplina

302.3/5

Soggetti

Organizational change - Social aspects

Organizational change - Research

Bureaucracy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Discourses of Post-Bureaucratic Organization -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Chapter 1. The discourses of post-bureaucratic organization -- Chapter 2. Approaches to studying organizational discourse -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3. A social semiotic view of discourse and organization -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4. Organizational discourse -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5. Negotiating organization -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6. The dynamics of post-bureaucratic interaction -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7. Recording the organization -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8. 'Pathwaying' as post-bureaucratic ethos -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9. Conclusion -- References -- Author index -- Subject index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book considers the discourses that come into play in organizational change. The book outlines the tensions that arise for people having to enact change, and analyzes the ways in which they position themselves in changing organizational environments. The book takes a social semiotic perspective on discourse, organization and change. Here, discourse encompasses not only the multi-modal resources that people mobilize in organizational (inter)action, but also



the practices and transformative dynamics afforded by those resources. The organizational changes highlighted in the book revolve around three dimensions of work that are increasingly coming to the fore: participation, boundary-spanning and knowledging. These dimensions are explored through case studies, including a health planning project, an initiative to standardize work practices, and the tension between paper-based and IT-based reporting. The book addresses the relevance of this discourse perspective to organizational research more broadly, by investigating organization as a dynamic of 'resemiotizations'.Cover illustration by John Reid.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910962398903321

Autore

Smith Andrew <1964->

Titolo

Gothic death 1740-1914 : a literary history / / Andrew Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

9781526101082

1526101084

9781526115256

1526115255

9781526101075

1526101076

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Manchester Gothic

Disciplina

823/.087209

Soggetti

Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English - History and criticism

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Death in literature

Literature

Literature & Literary Studies

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General

LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance

Biography, Literature & Literary studies - Gothic - United Kingdom, Great Britain

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-206) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Notes; 1 Touched by the dead: eighteenth-century Gothic poetics ; The elegy: critical overviews; Sensibility; The elegy; Gothic creativity; Death and poetry: seeing the Gothic in the 1790s; Notes; 2 Mourning, memory and melancholy: constructing death constructing death in the 1790s-1820s ; Mourning and memory; Rogers and the importance of memory; Charlotte Smith; Inscriptions of death and the construction of mourning; Constructing the self.

Reanimating the dead: the ethics of memory in The Man of Two LivesNotes; 3 From writing to reading: Poe, Brontèˆ and Eliot; Voicing death: Poe; Life, death and the cosmos; Death and the repeated life; Writing death; Wuthering Heights: knowing death?; Lifting the veil; A science of death; Notes; 4 Gothic death and Dickens: executions, graves and dreams; State killing; Oliver Twist and the Christian uncanny; The culture of the graveyard; Twins and doubles; Dreams, death and the imagination; Drood: decoding death; Notes; 5 Loving the undead: Haggard, Stoker and Wilde.

Haggard: love and death in SheLove and understanding in The Jewel of Seven Stars; Ayesha: The Return of She and dialogues with the dead; Raising the dead: The Lady of the Shroud; Dorian Gray and the imagination; Notes; 6 Decoding the dying: Machen and Stoker; The science of spirits: Henry Drummond; Myers and the subliminal self; Machen's Gothic fragments; Dracula: writers, readers, editors; Notes; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Drawing on a range of popular Gothic and Victorian novels, poems and short stories, this book provides the first full length study of representations of death and dying in Gothic texts between 1740 and 1914.