Policing literary theory

by Mihailescu, Calin-Andrei Yokota, Jeri

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Title Statements

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

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2018

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Brill/Rodopi
Place of Publication:Leiden
Language:eng
Publication Date:2018

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (ix, 218 pages).

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789004358515, 900435851X
oclc:on1019846450
LC Classification:PN441
Dewey Decimal:801/.95

Intro -- Policing Literary Theory -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Editors' Introduction -- Part 1: Theories of Policing in Literature and Literary Criticism -- 1 After Theory: Politics against the Police? -- 2 Theory Policing Reading or the Critic as Cop: Revisiting Said's The World, the Text, and the Critic -- 3 Le cercle carré: On Spying and Reading -- Part 2: Case Studies -- 4 Dear Leader! Big Brother!: On Transparency and Emotional Policing -- 5 The Charisma of Theory -- 6 Within or beyond Policing Norms: Yuri Lotman's Theory of Theatricality -- 7 The Oppressive and the Subversive Sides of Theoretical Discourse -- Part 3: Policing Literary Theory across the World -- 8 Roman Nikolayevich Kim and the Strange Plots of His Mystery Novellas -- 9 Kafka, Snowden, and the Surveillance State -- 10 The Genetics of Morality: Policing Science in Dudintsev's White Robes -- 11 In Lieu of a Conclusion: Policing as a Form of Epistemology -- Three Narratives of the Japanese Empire -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Names.

Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory Literature -- History And Criticism Literature -- Political acpects Literature -- Theory, etc Littérature -- Histoire et critique Narration Narration (Rhetoric) Politics and literature Politique et littérature