Policing Literary Theory

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-35850-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 86, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature

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, Calin-Andrei Mihailescu, Sowon Park, Marko Juvan, Kyohei Norimatsu, Péter Hajdu, Norio Sakanaka, John Zilcosky, Yvonne Howell, and Takayuki Yokota-Murakami.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Mihailescu, Calin-Andrei

Yokota-Murakami, Takayuki

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Verwaltungspraxis Polizei
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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
Calin-Andrei Mihailescu

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

Über Autor(innen)

Calin-Andrei Mihailescu, 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 Calinescu 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.