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Beschreibung
Weimar and Work: Labor, Literature, and Industrial Modernity on the Weimar Left analyzes writing about work that was published in communist and anarchist newspapers during the Weimar Republic. By discussing texts that have been almost completely neglected, this book¿s approach departs from existing scholarship on Weimar in two significant ways. First, it analyzes these texts in the context of the period¿s dominant theories, practices, psychologies, and utopian ideas concerning labor. Due to the proximity of artistic and industrial «production,» particularly in the minds and practices of Weimar communists, this book considers these literary treatments of work also within the framework of literary and artistic meta-discourses during the Weimar Republic (e.g., Expressionism, New Objectivity, and Productivism). Second, Weimar and Work demonstrates how the works of B. Traven and other anarchist writers opened up real and conceptual spaces beyond the hegemonic and allegedly binary opposition between Americanism and Bolshevism. Such spaces allowed for the questioning of the very notion of waged work and critiqued the productivism of communist literature and cultural politics.
Weimar and Work: Labor, Literature, and Industrial Modernity on the Weimar Left analyzes writing about work that was published in communist and anarchist newspapers during the Weimar Republic. By discussing texts that have been almost completely neglected, this book¿s approach departs from existing scholarship on Weimar in two significant ways. First, it analyzes these texts in the context of the period¿s dominant theories, practices, psychologies, and utopian ideas concerning labor. Due to the proximity of artistic and industrial «production,» particularly in the minds and practices of Weimar communists, this book considers these literary treatments of work also within the framework of literary and artistic meta-discourses during the Weimar Republic (e.g., Expressionism, New Objectivity, and Productivism). Second, Weimar and Work demonstrates how the works of B. Traven and other anarchist writers opened up real and conceptual spaces beyond the hegemonic and allegedly binary opposition between Americanism and Bolshevism. Such spaces allowed for the questioning of the very notion of waged work and critiqued the productivism of communist literature and cultural politics.
Über den Autor
Martin Kley studied at the universities of Augsburg, Pittsburgh, and Texas at Austin, where he received his PhD in Germanic studies. Since then, he has worked as an Assistant Professor of German Studies at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania. He has published articles on cinema, communist and anarchist culture, and contemporary German literature.
Zusammenfassung
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Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Genre: Allg. & vergl. Sprachwissenschaft, Importe
Rubrik: Sprachwissenschaft
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: 182 S.
ISBN-13: 9781433117954
ISBN-10: 1433117959
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 311795
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Kley, Martin
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Hersteller: Peter Lang
Peter Lang Publishing Inc.
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstr. 11, D-10178 Berlin, r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com
Maße: 231 x 155 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Martin Kley
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.03.2013
Gewicht: 0,412 kg
Artikel-ID: 105180604

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