| 紀錄類型: |
書目-電子資源
: 單行本
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| 副題名: |
sublime bureaucracy |
| 作者: |
SullivanCeri, 1963- |
| 出版地: |
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York, NY |
| 出版者: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| 出版年: |
2013 |
| 面頁冊數: |
1 online resource. |
| 標題: |
Bureaucracy in literature. - |
| 標題: |
English literature - History and criticism. - |
| 標題: |
Civil service in literature. - |
| 標題: |
Literature and civil service. - |
| 標題: |
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) - |
| 標題: |
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - |
| 標題: |
Milton - John - Criticism and interpretation. - |
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Trollope - Anthony - Criticism and interpretation. - |
| 標題: |
Hare - David - Criticism and interpretation. - |
| 電子資源: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137287427 |
| 附註: |
Description based on print version record. |
| 摘要註: |
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. |
| ISBN: |
9781137287427electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
113728742Xelectronic bk. |
| 內容註: |
Introduction: Weber, Bureaucracy, and Creativity Weber and the Office Creative Bureaucracy The 1650s: Milton and the Beginning of Civil Service The Commonwealth's Public Service From Personal Servant to Public Servant Milton as Latin Secretary Hell, Heaven, and the Ideal Bureaucracy The 1850s: Trollope and the Height of Civil Service Ambitions Impetus for Reform A Literary Civil Service Combining Writing and Civil Service Novelists are also Public Servants Trollope Writes about Civil Service The Present: Hare and Shrinking Government Provision New Public Management National Theatre Service to or by the People? Hare's Plays on Public Services Coda: Bureaucratic Creativity --. 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. |