The bureaucratic muse : on Thomas Bernhard's 'Exempel', Adalbert Stifter's 'Der Kuss von Sentze', Franz Kafka's 'In der Strafkolonie', and Oswald Wiener's 'Die Verbesserung von Mitteleuropa, Roman'

The thesis, as its title suggests, works through examples: it looks at the way in which four literary works have responded to the spirit of bureaucracy. It also looks at the way in which each text, by thematizing bureaucracy, questions itself as a literary text. By working through examples the thesi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hughes, Helen
Published: University College London (University of London) 1994
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.337426