LEADER 03952nam 22006492 450 001 9911008474703321 005 20151002020704.0 010 $a1-282-94698-6 010 $a9786612946981 010 $a1-57113-807-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9781571138071 035 $a(CKB)2670000000066933 035 $a(OCoLC)694361473 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10437813 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000429461 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11305712 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000429461 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10451610 035 $a(PQKB)10798267 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781571138071 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3003755 035 $a(DE-B1597)676349 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781571138071 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000066933 100 $a20120822d2008|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe technological unconscious in German modernist literature $enature in Rilke, Benn, Brecht, and Do?blin /$fLarson Powell 210 1$aSuffolk :$cBoydell & Brewer,$d2008. 215 $a1 online resource (256 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aStudies in German literature, linguistics, and culture 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). 311 08$a1-57113-382-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe limits of technocracy -- Rilke's unnatural things: from the end of landscape to the Dinggedicht -- Nature on stage: Gottfried Benn: beyond the aesthetics of shock? -- The limits of violence: Do?blin's colonial nature -- Nature as paradox: Brecht's exile lyric. 330 $aEven after the end of modernism and postmodernism, grandiose fantasies of artifice and self-reference still resonate in the 'social constructivism' of current literary and cultural theory: in the idea that we can perform or construct 'identities' or social roles without external constraint, as if we had consumer choice of self. Larson Powell's book posits nature as a limit to such fantasies, redefining aesthetic modernity's conception of and relation to nature and therefore its relation to reality. Powell's term 'the Technological Unconscious' refers both to the intersection between psychoanalysis and theories of modernism and to the philosophical mediation between history and nature, a motif important from Kant to Adorno. The book's four chapters center on the representation of nature in German prose and - especially - poetry by Rilke, Benn, Brecht, and Do?blin from the years 1900 to 1945. In connection with these works, Powell analyzes the conceptions of 'subject' and 'system' in the theories of Adorno, Luhmann, and Lacan and their relation to their complement, nature. 'The Technological Unconscious' is thus an important polemical intervention both in the debates over interdisciplinarity and in those between eclectic 'culturalist' theories such as New Historicism and postcolonialism on the one hand and systems theory and psychoanalysis on the other. Larson Powell is assistant professor of German at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. 410 0$aStudies in German literature, linguistics, and culture. 606 $aGerman poetry$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aGerman literature$y20th century$xThemes, motives 606 $aNature in literature 606 $aModernism (Aesthetics) 615 0$aGerman poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aGerman literature$xThemes, motives. 615 0$aNature in literature. 615 0$aModernism (Aesthetics) 676 $a831/.910936 686 $aGM 1600$qBSZ$2rvk 700 $aPowell$b Larson$f1960-$01825889 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911008474703321 996 $aThe technological unconscious in German modernist literature$94393811 997 $aUNINA