The Resource The technological unconscious in German modernist literature : nature in Rilke, Benn, Brecht, and Döblin, Larson Powell
The technological unconscious in German modernist literature : nature in Rilke, Benn, Brecht, and Döblin, Larson Powell
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- Summary
- Even 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 Döblin 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (256 pages)
- Note
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015)
- Contents
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- The 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: Döblin's colonial nature
- Nature as paradox: Brecht's exile lyric
- Isbn
- 9781571138071
- Label
- The technological unconscious in German modernist literature : nature in Rilke, Benn, Brecht, and Döblin
- Title
- The technological unconscious in German modernist literature
- Title remainder
- nature in Rilke, Benn, Brecht, and Döblin
- Statement of responsibility
- Larson Powell
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Even 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 Döblin 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
- Cataloging source
- UkCbUP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1960-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Powell, Larson
- Dewey number
- 831/.910936
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PT553
- LC item number
- .P65 2008
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- German poetry
- German literature
- Nature in literature
- Modernism (Aesthetics)
- Label
- The technological unconscious in German modernist literature : nature in Rilke, Benn, Brecht, and Döblin, Larson Powell
- Note
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015)
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- online resource
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- rdacarrier
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- Contents
- The 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: Döblin's colonial nature -- Nature as paradox: Brecht's exile lyric
- Control code
- CR9781571138071
- Extent
- 1 online resource (256 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781571138071
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- c
- Other physical details
- digital, PDF file(s).
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Label
- The technological unconscious in German modernist literature : nature in Rilke, Benn, Brecht, and Döblin, Larson Powell
- Note
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015)
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The 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: Döblin's colonial nature -- Nature as paradox: Brecht's exile lyric
- Control code
- CR9781571138071
- Extent
- 1 online resource (256 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781571138071
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- digital, PDF file(s).
- Specific material designation
- remote
Subject
- German literature -- 20th century -- Themes, motives
- German poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Modernism (Aesthetics)
- Nature in literature
Member of
- Online access with EBA: Cambridge Books Online
- Online access with EBA: JSTOR
- Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
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