Policing Literary Theory

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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