ISBN:
9781137287410
Language:
English
Pages:
VIII, 218 S.
DDC:
820.9/353
Keywords:
Milton, John Criticism and interpretation
;
Trollope, Anthony Criticism and interpretation
;
Hare, David Criticism and interpretation
;
English literature History and criticism
;
Bureaucracy in literature
;
Civil service in literature
;
Literature and civil service
;
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
;
Großbritannien
;
Literatur
;
Verwaltung
;
Bürokratie
;
Englisch
;
Bürokratie
;
Verwaltung
;
Milton, John 1608-1674
;
Trollope, Anthony 1815-1882
;
Hare, David 1947-
Abstract:
"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"--
Abstract:
"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"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index.
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis S. 190 - 209
