Utility literature

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Utility literature is the generic term for books and writings that are written for a specific purpose without artistic pretensions and that remain bound to this purpose. Utility literature includes both specialist and non-fiction literature . In a broader sense, it refers to all non-fictional literature. Utility literature is thus characterized by the lack of humor, irony, charm, linguistic stimulus and other stylistic devices. Or: "Books should not be sources of revelation, but everyday practical instruments", namely utility literature.

Everyday objects are treated in this literary form, just as it is in journalism. Reports , portraits and essays are utility literature. In the Weimar Republic , the general literature approaching journalism was regarded as New Objectivity . A functionalist view of society could well be the subject of literary works, for example by Robert Musil , Herbert Broch, Erich Kästner or Bertolt Brecht . "Briefness and worldly wisdom are the building blocks of the small form, which has always oscillated between orality and written form, between everyday literature and art speech, literary form and everyday language".

The German Text Archive has 270 works in the category of utility literature. This includes propriety literature, astrology, report, biology, edification literature, pamphlet, horticulture, occasional writing, society, manual, house fathers literature, cookbook, criminalistics, art, economics, education, plant book, philology, philosophy, poetics, politics ...

Even children's books , which largely dispense with literary stylistic devices, can be regarded as useful literature. Just like thrillers "that were thrown away after reading" when they were of no artistic or informational value.

The internet makes it possible to exchange stories from a common world. At Wattpad a “folk kitchen of literature” is being created, a new type of utility literature.

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  3. ↑ Technical and practical literature. In: www.hanebuechlein.de. Retrieved August 25, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Dr Tilman Krause: Utility literature for a bad conscience . In: The world . December 16, 2007 ( online [accessed August 25, 2015]).
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  8. ↑ Overview of the epochs by Johanna Erfurt - Neue Sachlichkeit. In: epochenuebersicht.de.tl. Retrieved August 25, 2015 .
  9. ^ German poetry in the 20th century. Archived from the original on October 10, 2015 ; Retrieved August 25, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Erich Kästner: A speed like in a car . In: The time . January 27, 2005 ( online [accessed August 25, 2015]).
  11. ↑ By Maren Jäger: The BRUETERICH system rises into the ring - or: About the gradual production of a publisher: literaturkritik.de. In: www.literaturkritik.de. Retrieved August 25, 2015 .
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  13. ↑ Andreas Steinhöfel - "No child has yet died from the subordinate clause". Retrieved August 25, 2015 .
  14. ^ Abendblatt.de: Germany's first crime museum shows 5000 works. In: Abendblatt.de. Retrieved August 25, 2015 .
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