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Modernism and the culture of efficiency : ideology and fiction / / Evelyn Cobley
Modernism and the culture of efficiency : ideology and fiction / / Evelyn Cobley
Autore Cobley Evelyn
Pubbl/distr/stampa Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (355 p.)
Disciplina 306.4/6
Soggetto topico Modernism (Literature)
Industrial efficiency - Social aspects
Technological innovations - Social aspects
English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Technology in literature
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-4426-9743-1
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE. The Culture of Efficiency in Society -- 1. Efficiency and the Great Exhibition of 1851: Elation and Doubt -- 2. Efficient Machines and Docile Bodies: Henry Ford and F.W. Taylor -- 3. An Experiment in (In)Efficient Organization and Social Engineering: Auschwitz -- 4. Efficiency and Disciplinary Power: The Iron Cage and the Suburb -- PART TWO. The Culture of Efficiency in Fiction -- 5. Efficiency and Population Control: Wells, Shaw, Orwell, Forster -- 6. 'Criminal' Efficiency: Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness -- 7. Efficient Management: D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love -- 8. Efficiency and Perverse Outcomes: Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier -- 9. Efficiency and Its Alternatives: E.M. Forster's Howards End -- 10. Efficiency and the Perfect Society: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910458200803321
Cobley Evelyn  
Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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Modernism and the culture of efficiency : ideology and fiction / / Evelyn Cobley
Modernism and the culture of efficiency : ideology and fiction / / Evelyn Cobley
Autore Cobley Evelyn
Pubbl/distr/stampa Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (355 p.)
Disciplina 306.4/6
Soggetto topico Modernism (Literature)
Industrial efficiency - Social aspects
Technological innovations - Social aspects
English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Technology in literature
Soggetto genere / forma Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
ISBN 1-4426-9743-1
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto 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.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910791549503321
Cobley Evelyn  
Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Modernism and the culture of efficiency : ideology and fiction / / Evelyn Cobley
Modernism and the culture of efficiency : ideology and fiction / / Evelyn Cobley
Autore Cobley Evelyn
Pubbl/distr/stampa Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (355 p.)
Disciplina 306.4/6
Soggetto topico Modernism (Literature)
Industrial efficiency - Social aspects
Technological innovations - Social aspects
English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Technology in literature
Soggetto genere / forma Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
ISBN 1-4426-9743-1
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto 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.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910814234903321
Cobley Evelyn  
Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Temptations of Faust : the logic of fascism and postmodern archaeologies of modernity / / Evelyn Cobley
Temptations of Faust : the logic of fascism and postmodern archaeologies of modernity / / Evelyn Cobley
Autore Cobley Evelyn
Pubbl/distr/stampa Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2002
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (322 p.)
Disciplina 320.53/3/0943
Soggetto topico National socialism
Fascism - Philosophy
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Causes
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-282-02280-6
9786612022807
1-4426-8044-X
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translations -- Introduction -- PART ONE. DECONSTRUCTIONS OF MODERNITY -- Chapter 1. Neo-Romantic Roots of German Fascism -- Chapter 2. Organic Unity and the Privileging of Reason: Hegel and Beethoven -- Chapter 3. Fascist Undercurrents: Appeals to Authenticity and the Privileging of Reason -- PART TWO. POSTMODERNITY AND FASCISM -- Chapter 4. Breakthrough into Atonality (or Postmodernism) -- Chapter 5. Fascism and Atonality (or Postmodern Play) -- Chapter 6. Decentred Totalities: Fascism, Capitalism, Postmodernism -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910455934403321
Cobley Evelyn  
Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2002
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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Temptations of Faust : the logic of fascism and postmodern archaeologies of modernity / / Evelyn Cobley
Temptations of Faust : the logic of fascism and postmodern archaeologies of modernity / / Evelyn Cobley
Autore Cobley Evelyn
Pubbl/distr/stampa Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2002
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (322 p.)
Disciplina 320.53/3/0943
Soggetto topico National socialism
Fascism - Philosophy
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Causes
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-282-02280-6
9786612022807
1-4426-8044-X
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Neo-romantic roots of German fascism -- Organic unity and the privileging of reason: Hegel and Beethoven -- Fascist undercurrents: appeals to authenticity and the privileging of reason -- Breakthrough into atonality (or postmodernism) -- Fascism and atonality (or postmodern play) -- Decentred totalities: fascism, capitalism, postmodernism.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910780419003321
Cobley Evelyn  
Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2002
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Temptations of Faust : the logic of fascism and postmodern archaeologies of modernity / / Evelyn Cobley
Temptations of Faust : the logic of fascism and postmodern archaeologies of modernity / / Evelyn Cobley
Autore Cobley Evelyn
Pubbl/distr/stampa Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2002
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (322 p.)
Disciplina 320.53/3/0943
Soggetto topico National socialism
Fascism - Philosophy
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Causes
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-282-02280-6
9786612022807
1-4426-8044-X
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Neo-romantic roots of German fascism -- Organic unity and the privileging of reason: Hegel and Beethoven -- Fascist undercurrents: appeals to authenticity and the privileging of reason -- Breakthrough into atonality (or postmodernism) -- Fascism and atonality (or postmodern play) -- Decentred totalities: fascism, capitalism, postmodernism.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910821082403321
Cobley Evelyn  
Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2002
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui