Overview

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.

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Author:   Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu ,  Takayuki Yokota-Murakami
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   86
Weight:   0.486kg
ISBN:  

9789004358508

ISBN 10:   9004358501
Pages:   218
Publication Date:   11 January 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors Editors’ Introduction Part 1: Theories of Policing in Literature and Literary Criticism 1 After Theory: Politics against the Police?  Vladimir Biti 2 Theory Policing Reading or the Critic as Cop: Revisiting Said’s The World, the Text, and the Critic  Reingard Nethersole 3 Le cercle carré: On Spying and Reading  Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu Part 2: Case Studies 4 Dear Leader! Big Brother!: On Transparency and Emotional Policing  Sowon S. Park 5 The Charisma of Theory  Marko Juvan 6 Within or beyond Policing Norms: Yuri Lotman’s Theory of Theatricality  Kyohei Norimatsu 7 The Oppressive and the Subversive Sides of Theoretical Discourse  Péter Hajdu Part 3: Policing Literary Theory across the World 8 Roman Nikolayevich Kim and the Strange Plots of His Mystery Novellas  Norio Sakanaka 9 Kafka, Snowden, and the Surveillance State  John Zilcosky 10 The Genetics of Morality: Policing Science in Dudintsev’s White Robes  Yvonne Howell 11 In Lieu of a Conclusion: Policing as a Form of Epistemology – Three Narratives of the Japanese Empire  Takayuki Yokota-Murakami Index

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Policing Literary Theory is a timely contribution to a field under attack and a university system that is in shambles and it usefully interrogates some of the causes of this situation through the effective metaphor of a crime-scene drama. - Sean Braune, Brock University in Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, Vol. 4 No. 1 pp. 132-142.

Policing Literary Theory is a timely contribution to a field under attack and a university system that is in shambles and it usefully interrogates some of the causes of this situation through the effective metaphor of a crime-scene drama. - Sean Braune, Brock University in Feminisms. Materialists, Transdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches, Vol. 4.1 (2018) pp. 132-143

Author Information

Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu, Ph.D. (1956), is Professor of Comparative Literature, Critical Theory and Hispanic Studies at Western University (London, Canada), and a tetra-lingual writer (of academic writings spanning a number of disciplines, of prose, poetry, essay, children stories, etc.). His recent volumes include Happy New Fear! (Bucharest, 2011), “Literary Theory and the Sciences” (ed.; Neohelicon 41.2, 2014), and Matei Călinescu Festschrift (ed., Yearbook of Comparative Literature 59, 2016). His forthcoming books include Deunamor, Afka and Other Positions, An Astrocentric World, Poezoo and One per Year. Takayuki Yokota-Murakami, Ph.D. (1959), Osaka University, is Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at that university. He has published monographs, translations and many articles on Russian and Japanese literature, including Don Juan East/West: On the Problematics of Comparative Literature (SUNY P, 1998) and Futabatei Shimei (Kyoto: Minerva shobo, 2016). He is currently working on a book on the concept of “mother-tongue” in literature and literary criticism.

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