{"product_id":"policing-literary-theory-9789004358508","title":"Policing Literary Theory","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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 4.1 (2018) pp. 132-143\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes 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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210743996759,"sku":"9789004358508","price":111.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/policing-literary-theory-9789004358508","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}