Policing literary theory / edited by Calin-Andrei Mihailescu, Takayuki Yokota-Murakami.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mihailescu, Calin Andrei, 1956- editor.

Yokota, Jeri, 1959- editor.

Series:

Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ; Volume 86.

Textxet : Studies in Comparative Literature, 0927-5754 ; Volume 86

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature.

Politics and literature.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill Rodopi, 2018.

Summary:

The present age of omnipresent terrorism is also an era of ever-expanding policing. What is the meaning — and the consequences — of this situation for literature and literary criticism? Policing Literary Theory attempts to answer these questions presenting intriguing and critical analyses of the interplays between police/policing and literature/literary criticism in a variety of linguistic milieus and literary traditions: American, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and others. The volume explores the mechanisms of formulation of knowledge about literature, theory, or culture in general in the post-Foucauldian surveillance society. Topics include North Korean dictatorship, spy narratives, censorship in literature and scholarship, Russian and Soviet authoritarianism, Eastern European cultures during communism, and Kafka’s work. Contributors: Vladimir Biti, Reingard Nethersole, Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu, Sowon Park, Marko Juvan, Kyohei Norimatsu, Péter Hajdu, Norio Sakanaka, John Zilcosky, Yvonne Howell, and Takayuki Yokota-Murakami.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Editors’ Introduction

Theories of Policing in Literature and Literary Criticism

After Theory: Politics against the Police? / Vladimir Biti

Theory Policing Reading or the Critic as Cop: Revisiting Said’s The World, the Text, and the Critic / Reingard Nethersole

Le cercle carré: On Spying and Reading / Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu

Case Studies

Dear Leader! Big Brother!: On Transparency and Emotional Policing / Sowon S. Park

The Charisma of Theory / Marko Juvan

Within or beyond Policing Norms: Yuri Lotman’s Theory of Theatricality / Kyohei Norimatsu

The Oppressive and the Subversive Sides of Theoretical Discourse / Péter Hajdu

Policing Literary Theory across the World

Roman Nikolayevich Kim and the Strange Plots of His Mystery Novellas / Norio Sakanaka

Kafka, Snowden, and the Surveillance State / John Zilcosky

The Genetics of Morality: Policing Science in Dudintsev’s White Robes / Yvonne Howell

In Lieu of a Conclusion: Policing as a Form of Epistemology – Three Narratives of the Japanese Empire / Takayuki Yokota-Murakami.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-35851-X

OCLC:

1004259445

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004358515 DOI